From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tosspot Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for over aged hippies?! Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 20:59:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <86popa5lm4.fsf@student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1471287634 29968 195.159.176.226 (15 Aug 2016 19:00:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 19:00:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 15 21:00:27 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bZN7b-0007P2-5i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2016 21:00:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38513 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZN7b-0003u1-61 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:00:27 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!168.235.88.217.MISMATCH!2.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!news.mixmin.net!border2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:59:00 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <86popa5lm4.fsf@student.uu.se> Original-Lines: 36 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-X-Trace: sv3-7fW/UJQcEMvRGkChFaCQtSnHmCPjsgo/QZJcgbPasAfWLNwd5VdMuzpqsPBLIX88srWta1f36tMaxr6!MgN/cBrWuuO4X8Uis7SOLW2NosfI4dyc+IOfXsHFKV6mOvMf5wiSihv8Tycf8yOt/BdwPY0k5+vr Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2200 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218740 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111152 Archived-At: 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 :-)