[jhbadger]

I remember when Emacs was viewed as requiring a lot of resources (in the early 1990s) and I remember the sysadmin of our shared UNIX system scolding us if we had more than one emacs process running (as opposed to opening multiple files in different buffers).

[groovy2shoes]

The old joke was that EMACS stood for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping. Of course, eight megs is nothing these days.