From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:27:51 +0200
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On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> The real reason that emacs is so slow on startup is its absolute
> size. It simply won't fit into 4MB RAM, without much squeezing, and as
> soon as you start compilations from inside Emacs, it'll die.

Actually, Emacs takes less than 1.8MB when it loads.  And I didn't see it 
die when it starts compiling.  The DPMI server will just page all of 
Emacs out to disk, if the compiler needs the memory.