Some senseless babbling from Murray Lesser to Linda Proulx
on 10-22-99  21:40 about Emacs...

 ML> (Excerpts from a message dated 10-21-99, Rodrigo Cesar Banhara to
 ML> Linda Proulx (original topic: Warp 3 Install):
 ML> 
 ML> Hi Linda--
 
 LP> What is 'emacs' ?
 
 RB>It is text editor ported from Linux. Difficult to use. I dont like.

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

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

There is indeed at least one complete port of EMACS to OS/2.

The fun part of that program is getting Zippy the Pinhead to spar off with
Eliza.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


... OS/2 users do EVERYTHING while formatting floppy disks.

___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v3.0pr2
500/3