Erik L. Arneson Aug 18, 2025
I was interviewed by Protesilaos Stavrou for his "Prot Asks" series! You can watch it here: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2025-08-17-prot-asks-erik-emacs-1990s-portland-oregon-podcasting/ #emacs #pdx #1990s #programming #lisp #golang
Prot Asks: Erik about Emacs since the 1990s, Oregon and Portland, and podcasting

In this video, I talk with Erik Arneson about Emacs over the years, all sort of Linux-related technical issues, and life in Oregon.

Protesilaos Stavrou
Show threadJames Endres Howell
@pymander I enjoyed listening to it! Very nostalgic to reminisce about late 80s early-mid 90s Emacs and hardware.
Aug 19, 2025 at 3:23amWeb
Show threadErik L. Arneson Aug 19, 2025
@jameshowell Thank you! It was weird thinking back to that. Do you remember the XFree86 server that was built to run in low memory situations? Was it called Xtiny or something? #xwindows #xfree86
Show threadJames Endres HowellAug 19, 2025
@pymander I'm a weird case because I just used the Unix servers at school over dialup. I had a 4.77 MHz 8086 with an amber monitor running DOS that was just a dumb terminal. I couldn't afford to replace it until 1997...? I completely missed Windows in the 90s.