Seriously! In my early Linux days (before 1994) I wouldn't run emacs. My first serious Linux system (486) had 8 megs of RAM and running emacs would bring things

Seriously! In my early Linux days (before 1994) I wouldn't run emacs. My first serious Linux system (486) had 8 megs of RAM and running emacs would bring things to a halt. I upgraded it to 32 megs which was amazing for the time...