From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, dann@ics.uci.edu, lennart.borgman@gmail.com,
stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: removing support for old platforms
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:37:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JCZFe-0001mX-3B@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878x308yuc.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> (storm@cua.dk)
Well, it would be a good joke to read something like
* Emacs is now prepared to run on the following machines and systems,
which are expected to be available in some distant future: ...
Yes that would be funny. But I think "distant past" is what fits the
convention of Antinews better. The convention is not that we call the
past the future. Rather, we call it the past, but we talk about it in
the ways normally used for talking about the future.
The full list of discontinued platforms is not necessary for the joke
and would just be dull. Maybe we could mention two or three.
Or maybe the joke doesn't need any specific names:
* Emacs 21 supports many additional systems and computers
that will be available in the distant past.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-09 11:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-05 8:43 removing support for old platforms Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-05 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-06 17:46 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-06 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-06 20:44 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-07 14:19 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-01-07 22:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-01-07 21:59 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-08 4:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-08 9:12 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-01-08 9:49 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-08 12:14 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-01-08 20:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-09 11:37 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2008-01-09 13:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-01-10 10:18 ` tomas
2008-01-09 11:37 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-12 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-07 17:15 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-13 17:27 ` Emanuele Giaquinta
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