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Re: Files in wrong subdirs of emacs/lisp?


From: Robert J. Chassell
Subject: Re: Files in wrong subdirs of emacs/lisp?
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 08:32:00 -0400 (EDT)

    But it does seem hard to imagine that current Emacs runs in
    non-floating point-supporting machines, isn't it? (vide
    lisp/float-sup.el)

Why is it so hard to imagine?

My understanding is that some of the currently popular small devices
do not support floating point.  I do not know for sure, but if true,
then potentially, millions of people could use such an Emacs.

(These small machines do not have much capacity, so I imagine that
developers would include just those parts of Emacs that they need.  At
one point, I reduced the Emacs 18 footprint to 300 kilobytes for a
version that did what *I* mostly used.  So I know that Emacs can be
made small, and still be useable.

(I do not know the current minimal footprint for version 21, but
likely it is below the 1.8 megabytes total memory on the Atari ST that
Diane Barlow Close used for writing a good bit of GNU documentation.
As far as I know, the current small machines generally have more than
2 megabytes of memory, so they should have the physical capability to
run a small machine Emacs.)

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