Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:24:52 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Orlando A. Andico" <orly AT natalie DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
Cc: Jorrit Tyberghein <Jorrit DOT Tyberghein AT uz DOT kuleuven DOT ac DOT be>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [Q] textEditor of choice
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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.