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Emacs for over aged hippies?!
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Emanuel Berg |
Subject: |
Emacs for over aged hippies?! |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:15:31 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
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 :-)
???
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- Re: Emacs for over aged hippies?!, Martin Neubauer, 2016/08/15
- Re: Emacs for over aged hippies?!, sms, 2016/08/15
- Re: Emacs for over aged hippies?!, Bob Proulx, 2016/08/15
- Re: Emacs for over aged hippies?!, sms, 2016/08/15
- Re: Emacs for over aged hippies?!, Mike Causer, 2016/08/15