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From time to time I visit websites that my i7 16gb dell xps struggles to process. Bloody hell, 20 years ago that kind of power would have powered a small super

• jrockway 4y ago
  "i7" isn't a particularly useful measure of computer performance. It can refer to over 12 years worth of processors, including the ultra-low power version of the first model, a 1.07GHz processor. That thing probably has trouble loading Emacs.
  • b112 4y ago
    That thing probably has trouble loading Emacs. And with those historic words, the vi vs emacs debate was finally won.
  • netr0ute 4y ago
    > That thing probably has trouble loading Emacs. I don't know about that, because my RISC-V SBC with a 1-core in-order 1GHz CPU and no GPU can load Emacs GUI just fine.
    • pjmlp 4y ago
      As long as it has more than 8MB, Emacs will do just fine.
      • jrockway 4y ago
        I thought it was 80MB and even then you're constantly swapping. (I had 32MB of RAM on the computer I learned Emacs on and it was totally fine.)
        • pjmlp 4y ago
          When Emacs came to be, you'd be lucky to have a 80MB hard disk, let alone main memory. :)
    • snvzz 4y ago
      So can my Amiga 500, even in unexpanded configuration. But it's microEmacs. Still, it is of course GUI (like nearly everything on the Amiga), and it works fine. It shipped in the AmigaOS 1.3 extras floppy. Probably also bundled in other versions.
  • cosmodisk 4y ago
    It's a 3 year old laptop that can cope with pretty much anything I throw at it.