From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: configurable means hard? [was: ... easier explanation how to setup gnus ...] Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:40:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5i61va9u7p.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8761v9fp6k.fsf@abbey.wistly.net> <1851107a-51f8-4514-a47d-0d0a6ce4fc4b@default> <05152b6c-07e5-4d6c-b4e2-3e9c9f5651eb@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376678777 31655 80.91.229.3 (16 Aug 2013 18:46:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:46:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 16 20:46:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VAP2O-000822-KW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:46:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60984 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VAP2O-0007w2-AM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:46:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53152) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VAOwe-0000p0-KS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:40:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VAOwX-000309-B7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57126) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VAOwW-000304-UF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:40:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VAOwV-0003CW-O9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:40:11 +0200 Original-Received: from yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com ([129.34.20.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:40:11 +0200 Original-Received: from kgoldman by yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:40:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: <05152b6c-07e5-4d6c-b4e2-3e9c9f5651eb@googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92936 Archived-At: 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.