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Article #3847Re: Better editors
From: Matt
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00
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: |>If you run ANY of those so-called "modern age" wordprocessors on
: |>anything less than a fucking P160, changing a font from "normal" to
: |>"bold" takes forever. And it won't get any better because all those
: |>programs are derived from earlier versions simply by adding more sloppy
: |>code to an already sloppy program. You'll end up with a 1Gb
: |>wordprocessor that eats ALL your resources while doing NOTHING. Even
: |>Emacs will laugh at it. Your modern age is 20 years behind Unix.
Hehe, too true. Give me that p160, a unix OS to run on it, vi, tex and
20 terminals, and 20 ppl will be laying out documents, 20 times as fast,
1/20th the cost.
--
Matt(hew) Jenkins. 2nd yr. Computer Science (RMIT Bundoora)
email: mdj@{arcadia|yallara}.cs.rmit.edu.au
Running DOS 6.2, Linux 1.2.8 on a 486/100/12/540
I like: Toranas, Beer, and Surfing the Net.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10cbb9,c5e58db146e51da8 X-Google-Attributes: gid10cbb9,public X-Google-Thread: 102b9a,c5e58db146e51da8 X-Google-Attributes: gid102b9a,public X-Google-Thread: 106243,c5e58db146e51da8 X-Google-Attributes: gid106243,public X-Google-Thread: 107393,c5e58db146e51da8 X-Google-Attributes: gid107393,public X-Google-Thread: 10e6b9,c5e58db146e51da8 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e6b9,public X-Google-Thread: 103b8b,c5e58db146e51da8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103b8b,public X-Google-Thread: 10e148,c5e58db146e51da8 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e148,public X-Google-Thread: 111731,c5e58db146e51da8 X-Google-Attributes: gid111731,public From: mdj@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au (Matt) Subject: Re: Better editors Date: 1996/05/22 Message-ID: <4nv72n$cku@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> X-Deja-AN: 156111011 distribution: inet references: <4nrqg2$eek@newslink.runet.edu> followup-to: comp.editors,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.emacs,comp.emacs.xemacs,gnu.emacs,gnu.emacs.help,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.unix.user-friendly organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.emacs,comp.emacs.xemacs,gnu.emacs,gnu.emacs.help,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.printing,comp.unix.user-friendly