On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 11:41:35AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > joe or jed are pretty good for simple yet reasonable editors. > > > > are they good performers on very small systems (e.g. my 386sx/20 > > with 8M?) > > but back to your question. i would expect that joe would be a decent > performer on a 386, it's a very simple and light-weight editor. it's > basically a clone of the old WordStar from CP/M and early MS-DOS days - > which used to run well on 8088 machines with <=640K, and even on Z-80 or > 8080 CPUs with 64K or less. > > jed's more of a heavy-weight, and may not perform so well on a 386. > OTOH, jed's user interface is nicer...more "modern"...than joe's and is > probably easier to learn and use. joe runs perfectly acceptable on my 386 w/8MB RAM. I dont see any speed difference to using it on my PII-266 main box. Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trees moving back and forth make the wind blow. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian GNU/Linux.... Ooohh You are missing out!
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