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Article #9595Re: Emacs anecdote and comparison to other editors [was: Re: Emacs]
From: Paul Johnson
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 10:59
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 10:59
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> I can't resist ... Neither can I... > While walking to lunch one day we were berating GNU Emacs for it's >kitchen sink (more like garbage pail) nature and insane size. I poped >out with the quote Emacs was nearly three times the size of the UNIX >kernel, but was capable of all these weird things like editing binaries. > > My friend, who was working on the disk buffer cache code of our >operating system at the time, suddenly went non-linear. He started >raving about how we could ``do a stand alone emacs ... we could graft the >device drivers underneath, it's already got a buffering mechanism ...'' >and went on like this for several minutes. I had a dream last night: I dreamed it was 2100. Everyone was wearing cyber-suits suspended in the air (so you could run around in cyberspace). I connected to the net, introduced myself, and said "Hey guys, what OS are you using these days!" And they said: "GNU Emacs!" -- Paul Johnson | Internet: paj@uk.co.gec-mrc | Phone: +44 245 73331 ext 3216 -------------!------------------.----------!------------------------------- GEC-Marconi Research is not | Don't worry: Baldrick has a Cunning Plan! responsible for my opinions. | (Graffiti on East side of Berlin Wall)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stc!root44!hrc63!mrcu!paj From: paj@mrcu (Paul Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Emacs anecdote and comparison to other editors [was: Re: Emacs] Message-ID: <428@argus.mrcu> Date: 21 Feb 90 10:59:57 GMT References: <4829@convex.convex.com> <1043500006@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <C9:1q62@cs.psu.edu> <1990Feb2.030810.29865@oracle.com> <131747@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <6685@internal.Apple.COM> <24567@ut-emx.UUCP> <48626@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Reply-To: paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson) Organization: GEC-Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow, UK Lines: 31