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* Emacs for over aged hippies?!
@ 2016-08-15 11:15 Emanuel Berg
  2016-08-15 11:24 ` Martin Neubauer
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From: Emanuel Berg @ 2016-08-15 11:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

I was in a discussion on rec.bicycles.tech on
the properties of the combination spanner
(combination wrench) but as it happened the
discussion drifted away across the Pacific to
Easter Island, Russian history, and

    Word Star, perhaps the most successful of
    the early word processes. It was
    a monolithic program in assembly language
    and ran on the Z-80 processor, on the CP/M
    operating system. It was written by a guy
    named " John Robbins Barnaby", in four
    months. 137,000 lines of assembler code.

To this I wrote:

    There is an Emacs mode (built in,
    actually): wordstar-mode Command: Major
    mode with WordStar-like key bindings.

    Is that the same? Sounds like it.
    
    For the real deal tho one would get a Z-80
    CP/M emulator to run... or a time machine.

And then I got:

    Emacs? Good Lord! I thought you had to be
    an over aged hippie to use that :-)

???

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2016-08-15 11:15 Emacs for over aged hippies?! Emanuel Berg
2016-08-15 11:24 ` Martin Neubauer
2016-08-15 12:10   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-08-15 16:34 ` Bob Proulx
2016-08-15 17:16 ` sms
2016-08-15 17:48 ` sms
2016-08-15 18:24   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-08-15 18:37 ` Mike Causer
2016-08-15 19:00   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-08-15 19:09     ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2016-08-16 12:49       ` Filipe Silva
2016-10-11  3:19         ` Emanuel Berg
2016-08-15 18:59 ` Tosspot
2016-08-15 19:01   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-08-16 14:40 ` Gene

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