[indymike]

I never had any problems with emacs on my low end 90Mhz Pentium with 8MB of RAM, as long as I stuck to -nox.

[dekhn]

yes, I should have mentioned: I was using the X windows version of emacs (at the time, I thought that was a Really Cool Thing- now, I use text emacs in tmux). I think it has a much larger footprint.