Re: Words and their meanings

Graham Reed <greed@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
*wavy lines*

Remember when Emacs was bigger than the OS you ran it on?

One of the joke expansions of "emacs" was "eight megabytes and continually
swapping".

Just _try_ to imagine modern application programs which were only so bloated
as to require eight megabytes of memory.
.

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