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.
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John Hasler
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA
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