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Emacs for over aged hippies?!
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 :-) ??? -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 66 Blogomatic articles - |
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Emacs for over aged hippies?!
CUT BACK ON THE RUTBAGA
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Emacs for over aged hippies?!
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:15:31 +0200
Emanuel Berg wrote: Emacs? Good Lord! I thought you had to be an over aged hippie to use that :-) Bewa Followup-To setting! Mike |
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Mike Causer wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:15:31 +0200 Emanuel Berg wrote: Emacs? Good Lord! I thought you had to be an over aged hippie to use that :-) Bewa Followup-To setting! .... Is that something you typically mention? If so, sorry, just thought it was more Emacs than bikes and it would be interesting to see what the gnu.emacs.help people would say. Anyway, next time. -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 66 Blogomatic articles - |
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Emacs for over aged hippies?!
On 8/15/2016 4:15 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
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. You can still run Wordstar under V-DOS. Install VDOS https://www.vdos.info/files/20160601/vDosSetup.exe Install Wordstar https://winworldpc.com/download/46C67977-18DA-11E4-99E5-7054D21A8599 Not sure how you'd print unless you had a legacy parallel port card in your system that you could set to the legacy PPT address, as well as a supported printer. |
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Emacs for over aged hippies?!
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 21:04:21 +0200, Emanuel Berg
wrote: Mike Causer wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:15:31 +0200 Emanuel Berg wrote: Emacs? Good Lord! I thought you had to be an over aged hippie to use that :-) Bewa Followup-To setting! ... Is that something you typically mention? If so, sorry, just thought it was more Emacs than bikes and it would be interesting to see what the gnu.emacs.help people would say. OK, but you posted this to rec.bicycles.tech, not to gnu.emacs.help... Hence the warning about the Followup-To: setting |
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Emacs for over aged hippies?!
On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:21:36 -0500, Tim McNamara
wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 21:04:21 +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: Mike Causer wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:15:31 +0200 Emanuel Berg wrote: Emacs? Good Lord! I thought you had to be an over aged hippie to use that :-) Bewa Followup-To setting! ... Is that something you typically mention? If so, sorry, just thought it was more Emacs than bikes and it would be interesting to see what the gnu.emacs.help people would say. OK, but you posted this to rec.bicycles.tech, not to gnu.emacs.help... Hence the warning about the Followup-To: setting When did this site get rededicated as Rec. ****-Wittery. Tech? -- cheers, John B. |
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Emacs for over aged hippies?!
Tim McNamara wrote:
OK, but you posted this to rec.bicycles.tech, not to gnu.emacs.help... Hence the warning about the Followup-To: setting I posted it to *both* rec.bicycles.tech and gnu.emacs.help, a so-called crosspost If there isn't a crosspost, i.e. a second newsgroup recipient, there is no need to specify to what newsgroups replies should go (indeed, the Followup-To header) - is there? Or "should" - it is a recommendation from the poster which the newsreader (Gnus in my case) insists on. Everyone is free to do whatever they want, including post to whatever newsgroup they see fit. I guess I was just born that generous -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 68 Blogomatic articles - |
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