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[Chad Perrin]

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".

-- 
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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