cbagger01
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Posted: April 06 2004,17:35 |
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I may be dating myself here, but I've used emacs over a 300 baud modem connection. Nothing compares to watching those letters scroll by at a rate slower than your ability to read them. It's kinda like watching those scrolling ticker messages on a billboard at a street corner in New York City.
Actually, I far more often used emacs from a 1200 baud modem connection or from a 9600 baud serial VT220 console. In addition to doing simple word proccessing, I used it for e-mail and for Usenet news reading (the World Wide Web as it is today did not exist yet so I did not use it to browse the web), and my CS friends used it as a C language development environment. Emacs works, but the key point is that the emacs configuration files were stored on a central UNIX server and the users were logging in remotely via a terminal emulator.
DSL is a read-only liveCD UNIX-like OS and the individual user would need to store his/her configuration files somewhere, like a hard drive, a network share, a flash drive or on the CD-R itself.
If I recall correctly, the user-specific config files weren't very large considering that they were plain text and our user accounts had a small quota ( < 1.0 MB) and they were nowhere near taking up a large portion of that quota.
I'm more interested in knowing the size of the application itself. If it's a few megs then my preference is to deep-six it. If it's only a few hundred KB then the cost-benefit ratio is a little closer to 1 : 1 and we shouldn't automatically dump it. Instead, it depends on the usefulness of the replacement application.
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