On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Brian D Chase wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, J.S. Havard wrote:
> 
> > Might not be practical to run due to resource constraints...  Wouldn't
> > happen to be talking aobut emacs by any chance?
> 
> Nah, emacs actually runs pretty well, even on my MicroVAX II.  It takes a
> little while to load -- 15-20 sec, but is quite responsive once loaded.
> The size in memory just after loading is 3212KB, so it's actually pretty
> tight.
> 
So, I guess emacs is one of those things that places the same load on a
machine, regardless.  A cow-orker of mine says it takes about 15-20
seconds to load emacs on his celeron 450.

Regards,
John Havard