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Posted by Stuart Miller on 02/10/07 17:58
"Rick Merrill" <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Doug Jacobs wrote:
>> In alt.video.dvd Colin McFadyen <colinm@rideau.carleton.ca> wrote:
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>>> Now there's a flame war that many young 'uns have never heard of...
>>> vi vs. emacs ;-)
>>
>> I don't know. I guess it depends on what field you're in.
>>
>> "VI or emacas?" was an actual question asked in an interview. I answered
>> "vi" and the interviewer replied "Correct." I don't know if there's
>> really an right answer there, or if the interviewer just wanted to see if
>> I knew what he was talking about.
>>
>> One of my former bosses was a big emacs fan. He basically used emacs as
>> his shell. He did everything with emacs. Mail, news, command shell...
>>
>
> That's nothing, I used to dream in TECO!
Hey I remember that one
DEC PDP-10 PDP-11 6 bit byte, 36 bit word
Made it very difficult to get lowercase letters on the line printer
That would be mid 70's
Stuart
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