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In article <PCG.92Dec23144916@decb.aber.ac.uk>, pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:

>How innocent! I use both GNU Emacs and Microsoft Word, and they are both
>inconsiderate eaters of CPU time,

GNU Emacs is a LISP operating system disguised as a word processor. 

At least you don't need LISP for Word; I assume Word for Windows? I use it
when I need a really pretty document, but damned if I don't stick to
Word Perfect for DOS for my casual writing, cuz of the screen display.

I suppose if I bought a SVGA board with an accelerator on it, I'd be happy.
Until I realized how dinky my screen is at home when compared to the 17"
monitors here at work. 

> not to mention TeX. The latter eats up
>about 10 million instructions per page. As editors and word processors
>become more powerful, feature laden, and sport ever greater degrees of
>multimediality, the are going to suck up CPU even more.

So we'll be able to put sound in documents. Rah..

Most of the world has problems getting an ASCII text message correct and
software companies now want to throw in full motion video?!?! Ack-pttthpft.

                    I have talked to Ehud, and lived.
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