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On Saturday, August 17, 2013 12:10:00 AM UTC+5:30, Ken Goldman wrote:
> On 8/14/2013 1:14 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> >
> > Social: As analogy consider that at one time emacs only ran on
> > unices.
> 
> Is that right?  Although they came around the same time, I thought emacs 
> first ran on some early DEC computer running a non-Unix OS.
> 
> Even if that isn't quite right, emacs was certainly multi-platform from 
> the beginning.

Well ok. Does not change the point, viz that spending dev-resources on widening the user-base is not an expenditure but an investment.