VI(1) vs. the world

wjb at goanna.oz wjb at goanna.oz
Sat Oct 18 07:02:47 AEST 1986


In all this hot-running debate, please allow me to ask a question.
Does anyone have any figures on the resources required by vi and
emacs?  On our system (Vax11/750, 4.2BSD) emacs runs very slowly
and consumes lots of cpu.  What are other people's impressions
(although I'd prefer measurements!)?

Warwick Bolam
Computing Dept
RMIT
Melbourne
Australia



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