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    > But if Emacs did not run on Windows, could you still have made
    > this contribution?  Or perhaps even more contribution?

    Not really.

What if you did all your editing on a GNU/Linux machine?

In the first year of GNU development, before GNU Emacs, I didn't do
editing on Unix.  I edited on another machine where there was an Emacs,
and saved the files to the Unix machine where I tested them.
It wasn't very inconvenient even then.