Date:	Wed, 17 Jan 2001 13:54:04 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: Environment setting for running DJGPP in plain DOS in Win9x
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On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> >Due the specific need to run in plain DOS to use the yamd, I noticed
> >that a lot of programs run slower in this mode (Emacs seems to snail
> >like the ole 486 era!).
> 
> Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping...

The 8MB figure was surpassed long ago, it's more like 16 megs now ;-)

However, note that the OP didn't say Emacs was paging, he said it was
crawling.  See my other message for possible reasons.

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