Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/03/07/08:35:51
On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Orlando A. Andico wrote:
> What's the truth to the acronym, "Eight Megabytes And Continuously
> Swapping" ? I understand that Emacs can do stuff like syntax
> highlighting, spotting errors from your compiler and showing the line
> where this occurred, etc. just like an IDE. Can the DOS port of Emacs do
> this too with DJGPP? and how much memory does it *really* need?
DOS port of Emacs supports everything you've asked about. It has no
problems running on any reasonable machine; I think even 3 MB of free RAM
will be enough to prevent it from swapping too fiercely.
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