From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rjjd Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:24:13 GMT Organization: tds.net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177900494 3461 80.91.229.12 (30 Apr 2007 02:34:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:34:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 30 04:34:52 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HiLiv-0003m1-13 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:34:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HiLp3-0002x5-7f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:41:05 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!news*.tds.net.MISMATCH!newspeer.tds.net!216.170.153.140.MISMATCH!newsreading01.news.tds.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.131.98.232 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net Original-X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1177899853 69.131.98.232 (Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:24:13 CDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:24:13 CDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147776 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43379 Archived-At: Joe Fineman wrote: ... > > This trilobite is 69 & has been using Emacs for 20 years. Well, I thought I was the Oldest Member, but Joe has 5 years on me. I started using emacs when it was TECO. Then I used Barry Scott's emacs at DEC in the 80's (http://www.barrys-emacs.org/). I'm retired now (or maybe unemployed), but when I was working, emacs was a necessity. At DEC, there were the expected attacks on emacs and TECO CPU consumption by people who thought attendance was a more important job requirement than delivery. I started using GNU emacs in 1996, on Sun. Incidentally, it's interesting that the age distribution of emacs users runs from 15 to 69, more than a half-century! Wouldn't it be fun to see the geographical distribution? I'm in New Hampshire, in the Northeast USA. Where is everybody else? I think emacs originated in Cambridge, MA. Who's farthest away? Regards, Bob DiGrazia