From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: editor and word processor history (was: Re: RTF for emacs) Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 00:57:06 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87k394mbwd.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401404437 20837 80.91.229.3 (29 May 2014 23:00:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 23:00:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 30 01:00:30 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wq9JB-0007tx-SM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 May 2014 01:00:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50661 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wq9JB-000144-7j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 May 2014 19:00:25 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:7WRsRjkb+lSGE1W2J6s3yw58PUM= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205683 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97953 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe writes: > In those days programs were punched onto cards using > keypunches or punched onto paper tape. Sometimes > they were written on paper and someone else would > punch them in. In those early days editors were > there to help people fix mistakes afterwards once a > file existed on a tape or disk. Only later were they > used for the whole writing process. OK, but then how did the data get on the tape/disk in the first place? -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573