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From: William Perry <wmperry@aventail.com>
To: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
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Subject: Re: The future of XEmacs
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Steven L. Baur writes:
>>>>>> "John" == John Turner <turner@xdiv.lanl.gov> writes:
>
>> Sudish Joseph writes:
>
[...]
>John> Here's my totally subjective scale (posted some time ago to c.e.x.)
>John> for 19.14 on various platforms:
>
>John> SPARC IPX, 64MB			painful, almost unusable
>John> SPARC 10/30, 64MB		slow, jerky
>John> SPARC 20/50, 96MB		sluggish but usable
>John> SPARC 20/61, 96MB		a little better
>John> IBM SP2, 512MB			OK, still a *little* jerky
>John> UltraSPARC 170E, 128MB		snappy, smooth
>John> SGI, 200MHz R10k, 512MB		wow!
>John> DEC, 300MHz Alpha, 4GB		wow!
>
>John> I do use both lazy-lock and func-manu, which some have pointed to as
>John> possible reasons for my need for fair hunks of iron to use as Emacs
>John> engines.
>
>Yup.  Before I switched machines, I used a 66MHz Cyrix486 with 32MB of RAM
>and it worked just fine.  But I use fast-lock not lazy-lock, and only have
>func-menu enabled by keystroke.  I also avoid having more than 1 frame
>displayed of large numbers of mousable extents (like dired, Gnus
>*Topics*/*Summary*, *Compilation*, etc.).

  I use XEmacs every day on a PPRO 200 w/32M and its great.  :)  I also use
it on my 586/100 laptop w/16M, and its perfectly adequate on both a TTY and
in X.  Just YAFDP (Yet Another #%!@ing Data Point)

-Bill P.

