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Re: [tlug] X11 Session Manager Setup



Curt Sampson writes:
 > On 2008-10-31 12:00 +0900 (Fri), Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
 > 
 > > Take (X)Emacs as an example.  While GNU Emacs is faster than XEmacs,
 > > it still takes a perceptible amount of time to start up.
 > 
 > No! Say it isn't so!

"It isn't so."  Now what, do I get a prize or something?

 > > On a modern machine, you can accrete a *lot* of 2-20KB documents in
 > > buffers before you run into memory problems!
 > 
 > Darn. "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" was such a good acronym,
 > too.

Still is, for us old timers who ran Emacs on machines where the only
thing addressable in terms of "M" was James Bond's boss.



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