(Excerpts from a message dated 10-21-99, Rodrigo Cesar Banhara to Linda
Proulx (original topic: Warp 3 Install):
  
Hi Linda--

 LP> What is 'emacs' ?

RB>It is text editor ported from Linux. Difficult to use. I dont like.

    Emacs existed long before Linux was ever dreamed of.  It is a
very-capable text editor for Unix, written by (IIRC) a student at MIT in
the 1970's.  (I suppose I should never have thrown away those old
manuals, but I am still running out of bookcase space.)  I used a "port"
of emacs to CP/M (a "disk-oriented" operating system for desktop
computers powered by the eight-bit 8080 or Z80 cpu chips) in 1979.  The
port was named MINCE (MINCE Is Not Complete Emacs) and was part of a
two-program word-processor application named Amethyst.  I don't know
what Amethyst was an acronym for, if anything; perhaps it was so named
because it was a jewel of a word-processor for its day.  (I am writing
this with a vintage-1988 DOS descendent of Amethyst, in an OS/2 Warp 4
VDM.)

    I believe (but am not sure) that there are emacs "ports" to OS/2.
(There, I'm back on topic!)  However, any youngster who grew up on GUIs
would probably find emacs hard to use.

    Regards,

        --Murray

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