[TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years?

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Sun Feb 26 22:39:56 AEST 2017


    > From: Dave Horsfall

    > Another acronym is Esc Meta Alt Ctl Shift...

Good one!

And there was a pretty funny fake Exxx error code - I think it was
"EMACS - Editor too big"?


I was never happy with the size of EMACS, and it had nothing to do with the
amount of memory resources used. That big a binary implies a very large amount
of source, and the more lines of code, the more places for bugs... And it
makes it harder to understand, for someone working on it (to make a
change/improvement).

        Noel



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