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[Matthew Seaman]

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On 31/05/2010 21:31:15, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 08:48:22PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> On Mon, 31 May 2010 11:36:53 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi <bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
>>> Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>>>> Vim is much smaller than Emacs but it still a few MB's here:
>>>>
>>>>   keramida at kobe:/usr/ports/packages/All$ ls -ld vim*
>>>>   -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  - 5757731  1 =CE=91=CF=80=CF=81 17:11 vim-lite-7.2.344.tbz
>>>
>>> Yeah, but EMACS is (currently) reputed to stand for <E>ighty
>>> <M>egabytes <A>nd <C>onstantly <S>wapping!  *GRIN*
>>
>> That's an old joke, but it's not particularly good anymore.
> 
> . . . probably because it's increasingly inaccurate.  Eighty was "the
> good ol' days".
> 

Young whippersnappers.  *Eight* was the good old days, back before the
web was invented.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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