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X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Minsk" XEmacs  Lucid (beta22)

I'm running XEmacs on several silly pieces of junk (well, actually
one's a Gateway 2000 P133 with 16MB RAM and a non-caching EIDE
controller, the other's a surplus Sparc ELC with 16MB of RAM), and
waiting for XEmacs to start can be rather painful; I've no idea what
it's swapping so busily, but it can take minutes.  Like 5--10,
depending on what else is running.

But once it's up, it's quite snappy.  With MIME and news support, and
w3.el, most other memory hogs (in particular, Netscape) are
unnecessary.  It is not at all painful to _run_ on either of those
platforms---just to _start_.

I don't care about startup (once a week or so---after building the
beta---I go get a Coke, the machine is 12 floors down and 150 meters
on the flat away), but we got a lot of students who don't have the
option of leaving XEmacs running at night.

Steve

