Kelvin Chu writes:
>
>... has anyone installed emacs (from the dist.) and if so,
>which machine name does one specify?  Does it compile straight out of
>the box, or does one have to dink around with it.
>

While I had no trouble compiling and running emacs on my IIsi, I found
that for some things GNU emacs was about as fast as an interpreted
TECO emacs I once ran on a roughly 0.1 MIPS PDP-11/23.  I am now
testing 'jed' and 'xjed' which have fewer features but seem to run
much faster.

-John

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