[AceJohnny2]

Remember when people joked that EMACS stood for "Eats Memory And CPU Superbly?"

And then each generation reinvents its state-of-the-art abstracted memory hog...

Edit: more jokes, from 1985: https://github.com/sbp/lemacs/blob/master/etc/emacs.names

[s_kilk]

Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping

[kazinator]

Precisely relevant to the issue at hand:

Eight Megs Ain't Comfortable Stack