I somewhere read emacs means “eight megabytes and constantly swapping”. So emacs would come from a time where eight MB was a lot. Never checked though… Also 4 or 8 is very close..
– Matthias 2024-10-20 21:45 UTC
Well, that’s a very old joke, of course, and you are completely right! Nowadays Emacs can be considered pretty lightweight, which says a lot about where we are with today’s software
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– mbork 2024-10-23 04:02 UTC