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Re: An old box running Debian 8



Charles Curley writes:
> True. But it does require emacs. Which in the context of the OP's
> requirement, stands for "Eighty Megs And Constantly Swapping" :-)

It was "eight Megs and constantly swapping": eight Megs was huge on a
Vax.

In the 90s I ran text-mode Emacs on a 386 box with 16M with no problems.
By current standards text-mode Emacs is *tiny*.  Even GUI Emacs has a
negligible memory footprint compared to any modern browser.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA


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