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by mmooss 506 days ago
That's incredible. Why? And why a clone? ???
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Narishma 506 days ago
Probably because GNU Emacs was too bloated for the Amiga's 512KB of RAM (or whatever amount the original model had).
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mmooss 506 days ago
They also might have been conserving storage space. Though Emacs did run on other contemporary systems.
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