Software Obesity (was Re: Jargon file v2.1.5)

Anthony A. Datri datri at convex.com
Sat Dec 15 16:36:40 AEST 1990


>Agreed!  (EMACS is *way* too klunky to justify its existence, even on
>a fast machine.)

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root       122880 Aug  9 22:49 /usr/local/bin/microemacs*
-rwxr-xr-x  7 root       155648 Feb  8  1990 /usr/ucb/vi*

The existence of vi is therefore also unjustified.


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