[ale] Emacs stinks, Vi is for wimps

[Geoffrey]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 13:35 -0400, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> 
> 
>>And in the interest of starting the bragging match - what _was_ the 
>>smallest lightest machine with X you have seen Linux on?? I seem to recall 
>>a friend getting Linux going in 2MB(386SX proc) but not X. I had 6MB 
>>going, but with flakey ram up high, X would crash the machine so I don't 
>>count.
>>
> 
> 386DX, 4MB RAM with a custom crafted modeline built using the sc
> spreadsheet and a dotclocks file that needs heavy modification. Graphics
> card was a trident w/0.5MB VRAM. I had 640x480 with 16 colors. It took
> nearly a month to get all the modeline data correct (lots of trial and
> error. mostly error. nearly smoked the monitor).

A spreadsheet??  What a wimp!  I was doing my calculations with pencil 
and paper.  That's back when, you really could damage your monitor! :)

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Until later, Geoffrey