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From: Ronald Cole
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1988 00:26

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In article <8791@wright.mips.COM> earl@wright.mips.com (Earl Killian) writes:
>You seem to be operating under the misconception that emacs is an
>editor.  Emacs is an operating system.  I hope that clears things up.
>--
>UUCP: {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!earl
>USPS: MIPS Computer Systems, 930 Arques Ave, Sunnyvale CA, 94086

That brings an interesting question to mind...  Is GNU Emacs appropriate
as a login shell?  The manual certaintly seems to imply that to be the case.
Has anyone done this?

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From: ronald@csuchico.EDU (Ronald Cole)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs
Subject: GNU Emacs
Summary: an operating system?
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Date: 30 Nov 88 00:26:53 GMT
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