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maybe cost in system resources? EMACS used to require a lot of RAM ("Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping").
by ido 6y ago
maybe cost in system resources? EMACS used to require a lot of RAM ("Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping").
- hnlmorg 6y agoNo, emacs used to be non-free software. Bare in mind open source (as we understand it today) is very different to what it was like in the 80s. Also internet connections (if you were lucky enough to have one in the first place) was several orders of magnitude slower and more expensive thus software was usually distributed via snail mail and usually came with a (hefty) price tag. In many ways, this is the golden era for developers. Never has so many tools been free, easy to access and in abundance. Though I'll always have fond memories of the 80s development for it's simplicity.