From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: brantleycoile@me.com (Brantley Coile) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 12:43:18 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years? In-Reply-To: References: <20170225141738.f3uauxhasru7gsb3@ancienthardware.org> <20170225143255.GH21761@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <3F3F4A7C-C3A7-4B77-9F75-49E42011B44D@me.com> I remember in 1991 noticing suspiciously high load activity on a workstation of an engineer on vacation. Turns out he had just left EMACS running. > On Feb 25, 2017, at 12:40 PM, Nemo wrote: > > On 25 February 2017 at 09:32, Larry McVoy wrote: >> 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. > > Ah, EMACS jokes (though this be off-topic)! I remember one cartoon, > which I cannot place, of someone at a terminal and a platter flying > through the room having broken free from the drive pack, the caption > reading "EMACS tends to hit the disc a little too often." > > N.