[TUHS] Make love

Steve Nickolas usotsuki at buric.co
Sat Aug 1 14:53:11 AEST 2015


On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Larry McVoy wrote:

> EMACS = Eight megs and constantly swapping.  That's how I heard it.  And
> that was in the the days of 4MB Sun machines, if you had 8, holy shit,
> that was cool!
>
> Am I the only guy who looks at 32GB (gigabyte!!!) USB sticks and shakes
> his head in amazement?  Modern processors have more L3 *cache* than Sun
> workstations had memory.

Nah.

Because of memory improvements I came up with a less dated-sounding 
variation of that expansion: EMACS - Enough Memory? A Concept Strange! - 
a few years back.

-uso.



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