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Re: Even more Gnus material: we made the paper!
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Marcin Borkowski |
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Re: Even more Gnus material: we made the paper! |
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Wed, 02 Mar 2016 06:07:02 +0100 |
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On 2016-02-29, at 17:48, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
> Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
>
>> Experiences of the Internet
>>
>> Joshua A. Braun
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>> Assistant Professor of Interactive Media,
>> Quinnipiac University
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>> ..., Emacs' long
>> release history and modest operating requirements
>> allow it to run on computers of almost any age.
>>
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> A long time ago, EMACS was (half-jokingly) supposed to stand for "Eight
> Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" (particularly among the vi crowd); it
> now exhibits "modest operating requirements" that allow it to run on all
> kinds of clunkers. Ah, how times change...
I remember the terrible mistake of launching flyspell on my 8MB
Pentium... The trauma is so deep I still do not use flyspell, even
though I now have 8GB RAM...
Best,
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Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University