J. Kean Johnston writes: : On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 09:00:31PM -0800, Kyle Jones wrote: : > If I can run today's XEmacs on a machine that is five : > years old (I can and do) and on the cheapest PC's available : > today, then I think we're doing all right. So I don't see in-core : > memory size as an issue worth addressing, unless its something : > we can do easily. : : Your argument holds true only if that is ALL you are doing. I : refuse to believe that you can run a fully laden XEmacs, have a : compile (or maybe even two) going, have a web server running, and : a few ftp sessions active (a fairly typical scenario on a typical : Linux workstation), all in 32MB of memory. I've managed to do some fairly serious development on a 32Mb P233 Linux box with X, XEmacs, make and egcs going full tilt. I think this is entirely an reasonable "maximum load" for this class of machine, and it's eminently possible to get things done. I'd hate to think about using DevStudio and NT on a box that piffling.... Cheers, -- pete "..."