From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: GNU Hurd (was Re: BSD Unix) Date: 22 Jul 1992 14:07:08 GMT
In article <3082@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale) writes:
|> I would also guess (based on experience with some of the other gnu utilities)
|> that it may be suffering from feeping creaturism. This is, of course, purely
|> conjecture.
Yeah, I mentioned to Stahlman once that I thought it was obscene to
have a editor which was larger than the kernel, and he said he'd take
care of it. I thought maybe he would make EMACS smaller...
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