Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 16:43:33 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Orlando Andico <orly AT dilnet DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
cc: Noam Rotem <nrotem AT johnbryce DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: An IDE for UNIX
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On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Orlando Andico wrote:

> You can also use XEmacs, which can do all of the above, albeit with
> massive resource consumption. It can even spawn child debuggers. But in my
> experience, don't use it on a PC (UNIX box) with any less than 32MB of RAM
> and a middle-end Pentium CPU, or a RISC box with less than 64MB of RAM.

Try GNU Emacs instead of XEmacs.  It is significantly faster and doesn't 
gobbles so much resources.