Re: ZWEI (Re: emacs rules and vi sucks)

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• Subject: Re: ZWEI (Re: emacs rules and vi sucks)
• From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
• Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:00:01 -0400 (EDT)
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In article <4nadzjt496.fsf@rtp.ericsson.se>,
Raymond Toy  <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> wrote:
>>>>>> "Barry" == Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net> writes:
>
>    Barry> performance impact (we all remember what things were like when Dynamic
>    Barry> Windows first came out and suddenly the whole UI became a
>conglomeration of
>    Barry> instances with mouse sensitivity).
>
>Not me.  Before my (Lisp) time.  What was it like?

Slow as molasses.  Moving the mouse over a Lisp Listener causes the CPU to
spin heavily.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
Genuity, Woburn, MA
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