From: Tosspot <Frank.Leake@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs for over aged hippies?!
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 20:59:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <HoadnbqMo_NpjS_KnZ2dnUU78SmdnZ2d@giganews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86popa5lm4.fsf@student.uu.se>
On 15/08/16 13:15, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> 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 :-)
>
> ???
Welcome to 1975 :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-15 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2016-08-15 19:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-08-16 14:40 ` Gene
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