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Re: Perl rules!
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 21 Jul 1999 11:07:22 GMT
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"Moz (Chris Moseley)" <moz1@ihug.com.au> writes:
> What, Eighteen Megs And Constantly Swapping? Ever tried putting emacs
> on anything smaller than a CD?
Well, I've been running Emacs on a P150 system with 643MB harddisk for
three years now. That's smaller than a CD, right?
Or were you refering to transporting the Emacs sources on a CD? I've
used a set of 1440KB disks to do that. I needed eight of them, or so.
And as to the memory size of Emacs: Netscape used much more memory on
startup than Emacs already in 1996 or so. The Emacs process I have been
using heavily for 21 days now takes up 28MB in the memory. Try to use a
Windows system that heavily for 21 days without a reboot!
> Apparently the latest Caldera is quite good for that - all-GUI install, no
> reboots and autodetection of just about everything.
Reboots are a Windows phenomenon, as I see it. Reboots are rarely
needed for Linux. Only if you're to replace the kernel, say.
I don't really believe that Linux can be an OS for the masses. Not yet,
anyway.
Fredrik
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| (...) I do, quite regularly. Windows NT 4.0, Service Pack 5. The last reboot was about two weeks ago when I upgraded from SP3 to SP5; before then, my workstation was up for about three weeks. I have a cow-orker who's had Linux up without a reboot (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Perl rules!
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| Don Heyse wrote in message ... (...) What, Eighteen Megs And Constantly Swapping? Ever tried putting emacs on anything smaller than a CD? (...) Apparently the latest Caldera is quite good for that - all-GUI install, no reboots and autodetection of (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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