Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 07:55:17 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Testing Emacs 20
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On 12 Aug 1997, Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) writes:
> 
> > Emacs. (Make sure you have 65MB of free disk space.)
> 
> OK, can anyone doubt now that EMacs is a conspiracy by hard drive
> manufacturers to drum up extra business?!

You're kidding, right?

With 2.1GB drives going for US$200, what's an extra 65MB here and there?
gee, if you had a 2.1GB drive, the space wastage you'd incur because of
MSDOG's cluster braindamages is probably going to be in the range of 65MB.

Granted, 65MB is not unsubstantial. But that includes source AND the
intermediate binaries (.o files). If you just get the binaries, you can
get by with a lot less (<10MB for a typical distribution). I mean, most
DOS people do NOT use AucTeX, GNUS, VHDL, HTML, FORTRAN, or most
everything else. Just plain C-mode. 

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