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From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years?
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 06:32:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170225143255.GH21761@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170225141738.f3uauxhasru7gsb3@ancienthardware.org>

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 03:17:38PM +0100, Arno Griffioen wrote:
> Worked quite well in the 4MB DRAM available on these cards. The later SVR4
> didn't fare so well.. Paged itself to death unless you had 8 or even (gasp!) 
> 16MB.

Back in the days of 4MB SPARC machines (and 68K machines) we joked
that EMACS stood for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping.  David
Rosenthal, a Sun DE, was known for running emacs on the bitmapped
console in terminal mode so as to not let X11 or NeWS eat up ram.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-25 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-25 14:17 Arno Griffioen
2017-02-25 14:32 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2017-02-25 16:35   ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-25 18:11     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-25 18:16       ` Brantley Coile
2017-02-25 17:31   ` Clem Cole
2017-02-25 17:34     ` Charles Anthony
2017-02-25 17:36     ` Brantley Coile
2017-02-25 18:28     ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-02-27  5:08       ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-25 17:40   ` Nemo
2017-02-25 17:43     ` Brantley Coile
2017-02-25 23:23   ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-26 12:39     ` Noel Chiappa
2017-02-26 12:46       ` [TUHS] The size of EMACS, and what hides in kLOCs Michael Kjörling
2017-02-26 16:05         ` Nemo
2017-02-26 17:05           ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-26 18:23             ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-02-26 19:19               ` Jim Carpenter
2017-02-26 19:39                 ` [TUHS] EMACS movemail suid root bug Michael Kjörling
     [not found]           ` <CALMnNGg3dRV0yPV1GgeqaOFG0Mb5PSNuqgPs8pLKOHYzurYEOg@mail.gmail.com>
2017-02-27  1:00             ` [TUHS] The size of EMACS, and what hides in kLOCs Nemo
2017-02-27  1:48               ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-27  8:26                 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-27  1:19           ` Jason Stevens
2017-02-27  2:13             ` Nick Downing
2017-02-26 13:32       ` [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years? Tim Bradshaw
2017-02-26 14:19         ` Michael Kerpan
2017-02-26 14:54           ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-26 15:25             ` Angelo Papenhoff
2017-02-26 15:55               ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-26 15:37             ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-02-26 15:52               ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-26 16:06                 ` tfb
2017-02-26 16:27                   ` Ron Natalie
2017-02-26 18:32                     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-02-27 16:04                       ` Tony Finch
2017-02-27 23:51                         ` Nick Downing
2017-02-26 16:22                 ` Michael Kerpan
2017-02-26 16:36                   ` Ron Natalie
2017-02-26 18:01                     ` William Pechter
2017-02-26 18:40               ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-02-26 16:06           ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-02-26 16:30             ` Ron Natalie
2017-02-26 17:15           ` Ron Natalie
2017-02-26 17:20             ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-26 17:23               ` Ron Natalie
2017-02-26 17:33               ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-26 17:39                 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-26 17:39                 ` Michael Kerpan
2017-02-26 19:33                   ` [TUHS] roff Larry McVoy
2017-02-26 19:34                     ` Ron Natalie
2017-02-26 19:36                       ` Ron Natalie
2017-02-26 19:46                         ` Dan Cross
2017-02-26 19:41                     ` Michael Kerpan
2017-02-26 21:27                       ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-26 21:28                         ` Joerg Schilling
2017-02-27 13:59                         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-02-28 20:15       ` [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years? Dave Horsfall
2017-02-28 20:22         ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-03-01  1:31           ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-28 20:40         ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2017-03-01 12:45           ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-25 14:44 ` [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during theyears? jsteve
2017-02-25 19:02 ` [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years? Al Kossow
2017-02-26  4:06   ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-01  4:15 ` Gregg Levine
2017-03-01  7:17   ` arnold
2017-03-01  7:45   ` Ronald Natalie
2017-03-01 11:14     ` [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports duringthe years? jsteve
2017-03-01 14:54     ` [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years? Dan Cross
2017-03-01 15:41     ` Nemo
2017-03-01 18:17     ` Clem Cole
2017-03-02  2:13       ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-02  2:27       ` Gregg Levine

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