Re: How old are Emacs users?

[Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>]

+ Robert Marshall <spam@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk>:

| On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
|
|> + stromme@math.uib.no (Stein Arild Strømme):
|> 
|>| Age 56.  Emacs user since 18.59.
|> 
|> Dinosaur.  (Gjb lrnef byqre guna V!)
|> 
|
| And one more than me, I've been using emacs since 1991[1]
| (probably!)  I thought I started with 18.56 but maybe it was 18.59

So I got inspired into rooting through some old mail, and found one
from February of 1989 when I was building and using emacs 18.52 on an
Apollo workstation.  I may have used emacs occassionally before then,
but I think that was the start of my serious emacs use.  (But I have
kept my .emacs in RCS, then CVS, only since 1999.  Astounding the
amount of fluff that's in there, useless now but I must have felt a
need for it once.)

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* Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
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  when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
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