From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 11:35:24 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years? In-Reply-To: <20170225143255.GH21761@mcvoy.com> References: <20170225141738.f3uauxhasru7gsb3@ancienthardware.org> <20170225143255.GH21761@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On Sat, 25 Feb 2017, 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. 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. > >From that nickname I came up with "Enough Memory A Concept Strange", as 8 MB was no longer a lot of memory. Disclosure - never was an EMACS person, or a vi person, pico was and nano is more my cup of tea. That said, I can fumble my way around vi if I absolutely must. -uso.