Re: Emacs for over aged hippies?!

[Tosspot <Frank.Leake@gmail.com>]

On 15/08/16 13:15, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> I was in a discussion on rec.bicycles.tech on
> the properties of the combination spanner
> (combination wrench) but as it happened the
> discussion drifted away across the Pacific to
> Easter Island, Russian history, and
>
>     Word Star, perhaps the most successful of
>     the early word processes. It was
>     a monolithic program in assembly language
>     and ran on the Z-80 processor, on the CP/M
>     operating system. It was written by a guy
>     named " John Robbins Barnaby", in four
>     months. 137,000 lines of assembler code.
>
> To this I wrote:
>
>     There is an Emacs mode (built in,
>     actually): wordstar-mode Command: Major
>     mode with WordStar-like key bindings.
>
>     Is that the same? Sounds like it.
>
>     For the real deal tho one would get a Z-80
>     CP/M emulator to run... or a time machine.
>
> And then I got:
>
>     Emacs? Good Lord! I thought you had to be
>     an over aged hippie to use that :-)
>
> ???

Welcome to 1975 :-)