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minforth@arcor.de writes:

> But in umbilical configurations a compact editor for target-resident
> sources makes sense.

This editor uses a 0.5MB ram buffer to hold the file being edited.  Of
course the buffer could be made smaller but it's still not a great
approach for a ram limited target.