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[Thompson Freeman]

Stone &/or mud tablets are a little before my time. My first computer
exposure was two years or so before the university pulled the card
punches. From cards to the editor SOS (Son of Shortstop?) was a tremendous
relief, as the keyboards were much nicer on the Decwriters than the
keypunch machines. I had so minimal exposure to TECO (predating Emacs I
think).

I don't use vi, and I do use emacs, but both are worlds above SOS on a
teletype.

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Jim wrote:

> Or, as the geezer-geek would say (in the voice of Dana Carvey's "angry 
> old man):
> 
> "I can remember when we had to enter our commands in a stone tablet! in 
> Cuneiform!! 'Cuz that's the way it was. And we LIKED it!!"
> 
> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Swantje Willms wrote:
> > 
> >> When was that? I've happily been using Emacs for more than 10 years ;-P
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 11 years ago.. :)
> > 
> > 
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Yeah, back when we were running 3b2s with 4 meg of memory, we used to 
> >>> joke that EMACS stood for 'Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping.'  
> >>> Funny that joke just doesn't carry the weight it once did....
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > 
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