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Re: How old are Emacs users?


From: Rjjd
Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users?
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:24:13 GMT
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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


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