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From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: Oldest running Emacs version
Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 02:08:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3el3gc2nh.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: NdDsa.23$ve7.1883@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net

Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> writes:

> Jesper Harder  <harder@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
>>twenex.org is running TOPS-20 with an Emacs identifying itself as:
>>
>>   EMACS Editor, version 165 - type ^_ (the help character) for help.
>>
>>its.svensson.org is runing ITS with an Emacs saying:
>>
>>   EMACS Editor, version 162 - type Help(^_H) for help.
>
> Since this is gnu.emacs.help, I suspect the OP is mainly interested
> in GNU Emacs.  ITS EMACS is a totally different beast (although it
> was written by RMS as well).

Yeah, but the interesting thing is that both of them feel very
familiar -- I think anyone who's used to a modern Emacs would have few
problems using the old versions.  The Emacs user interface hasn't
really changed that much.

Compare that to using ITS or TOPS-20.  

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-03  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-02 22:35 Oldest running Emacs version Luis Fernandes
2003-05-02 23:15 ` Jesper Harder
2003-05-02 23:31   ` Barry Margolin
2003-05-03  0:08     ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2003-05-03 17:36       ` Karl Eichwalder
2003-05-04  1:51         ` Jesper Harder
2003-05-05 19:53           ` Barry Margolin
2003-05-05 22:37             ` Niels Freimann
     [not found]             ` <mailman.5607.1052174541.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-05 23:08               ` Barry Margolin
2003-05-06  8:48                 ` Niels Freimann
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.5614.1052211157.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-06 15:31                   ` Barry Margolin
2003-05-07  2:20                   ` Bijan Soleymani
2003-05-06  0:43             ` Jym Dyer
2003-05-05  8:59         ` Tim X
2003-05-03  1:40   ` Niels Freimann
2003-05-03  2:41   ` Luis Fernandes
2003-05-03  3:29     ` Bijan Soleymani
     [not found]   ` <mailman.5520.1051926159.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-03  3:31     ` Bijan Soleymani
2003-05-07 14:34 ` Luis Fernandes
2003-05-10  0:58   ` Brian Masinick
2003-05-11 21:43     ` Why 19.34? [Oldest running Emacs version] Alan Mackenzie
2003-05-12  8:41       ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-12 18:13       ` Edward O'Connor
2003-05-12 20:12       ` Brian Masinick
2003-05-12 20:19         ` Henrik Enberg
2003-05-12 20:46           ` Brian Masinick
2003-05-13  1:30             ` David Madore
2003-05-14  8:20             ` Dave Pearson
2003-05-15 22:20     ` Oldest running Emacs version Patrick Scheible
2003-05-10 14:06   ` Massimiliano Mirra - bard
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-04  7:03 Niels Freimann
     [not found] <mailman.5547.1052031922.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-04 13:02 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-04 14:30 ` Jesper Harder
2003-05-04 15:18   ` Niels Freimann
2003-05-04 22:06   ` Martti Halminen

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