Re: FAT binaries and Linux
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
23 Sep 1997 02:19:17 GMT
In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.970922210354.25801C-100000@frank.watsons.edin.sch.uk>,
Alistair Riddell <alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk> wrote:
>On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Jean-Claude wrote:
>> If you bind emacs for all Linux known
>> architectures, you get packages with a HUGE weight.
>> Emacs would be near 100 Megs!
>
>The latest version of MS Office is more than five times that size, for a
>single platform...
Well, let's be at least fair - MS Office does a lot more than GNU emacs
has ever done, and is a lot prettier about doing it too.
If you want to compare GNU emacs against a editor made by MS, you'd have
to compare it against MS Write, and then the MS application is actually
the less bloated of the two.
Linus