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From: "Leon" <Leon AT caresystems DOT com DOT au>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: emcAsc
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 15:17:47 +1000
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> When I had my 486DX-33 with 8MB RAM, and I used OEmacs, The launch time
> is not bad at all.  It's considerably longer than Elvis or DOS EDIT, but
> it's still within the human tolerance threashhold.  And it took less
> time to launch OEmacs than to launch Windows.

elvis - a vi port? do you know if it has color syntax?

also more importantly - in comparison to others (ie emacs, elvis etc.) how
do you think vim performs in terms of RAm requierments and overall launch
spped?

I am thinking of running compiler (c++) and text editor on a _very_ simple
machine (ie 4 meg RAM old 486)

normally would definitely consider EMACS but it is just too huge for 4
megRAM i've heard...

have tried to use vim - not too bad ;-)


With best regards
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