From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Van L Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What OS is used by Richard Stallman Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 19:13:42 +1000 Message-ID: <0005422E-6B79-42FA-BBFC-0D5CD20D5FF5@scratch.space> References: <20181005122626.7f3ff4e0c0d512461fd07078@speakeasy.net> <86k1mw12h4.fsf@zoho.com> <86ftxj1vb7.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1538817991 11685 195.159.176.226 (6 Oct 2018 09:26:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 09:26:31 +0000 (UTC) To: Help GNU Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 06 11:26:27 2018 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 1g8iqx-0002v7-94 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2018 11:26:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38458 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g8it3-0001k1-MK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2018 05:28:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53968) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g8irg-00013D-Ux for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2018 05:27:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g8iem-0007US-1B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2018 05:13:55 -0400 Original-Received: from relay9-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.199]:57767) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g8iel-0007OO-QI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Oct 2018 05:13:51 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 220.244.158.222 Original-Received: from epi.local (220-244-158-222.tpgi.com.au [220.244.158.222]) (Authenticated sender: van@scratch.space) by relay9-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 195A5FF803 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2018 09:13:47 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <86ftxj1vb7.fsf@zoho.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3124) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 217.70.183.199 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:118147 Archived-At: > Have I heard of it? I was the first who > mentioned it in this thread. Perhaps not in > a sensible way=E2=80=A6 How is that going?=20 They passed the MVP milestone,=20 found critical mass and it is=20 free, alas, unreleased? > The Emacs kernel is, I think, the part of Emacs > that runs all the time, that loops indefinitely > unless told otherwise, and from which Emacs can > schedule things with, for example, the idle > timer. >=20 > This makes Emacs an OS not just in the > "interface-to-the-whole-computer" sense, but > also in the scheduler sense. >=20 > But it isn't a Unix OS just because it is > a scheduler. The manpages exec(3), environ(7), intro(9) on NetBSD may shed light on the context to what you=E2=80=99ve said. > These are just clues I've picked up...