I was searching the comments for this! I used my first Unix machine in 1991 and started college in 1993. I knew vi but the professor used emacs and showed us

I was searching the comments for this! I used my first Unix machine in 1991 and started college in 1993. I knew vi but the professor used emacs and showed us how to run make from within emacs. But wow was it slow! I asked an older student and he said EMACS was just like GNU and was a recursive acronym. Emacs Makes A Computer Slow and then told us Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping. The workstations had 16MB RAM at the time. One big problem was that vi was installed locally on every machine while Emacs was on a remote file server and there were probably 50 students typing "emacs" at the same time at the start of class all accessing the same server. I just used vi and a bunch of terminals although later I used XEmacs in "viper" mode (vi keybindings) because it had color syntax highlighting and the split window support was cool. Vim got those features a long time ago so I just keep using vi/vim