Re: Even more Gnus material: we made the paper!

[Emanuel Berg]

Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

> A long time ago, EMACS was (half-jokingly) supposed
> to stand for "Eight Megabytes And Constantly
> Swapping" (particularly among the vi crowd); it now
> exhibits "modest operating requirements" that allow
> it to run on all kinds of clunkers. Ah, how times
> change...

Even then (before the desktops and their GUIs, or when
they were at their infancy) I've heard the rest of the
software were totally fragmented and incompatible so
Emacs was already at that point the "maelstrom" which
gave leverage into the system as a whole...

Sometimes a think of it like the stone age. Imagine if
the Europeans had never left the stone age phase but
only perfected it until supreme mastery (and
insanity). It would be Easter Island only over the
entire world!

And perhaps some Emacs people are like that - at this
point at what they think a higher level (because of
perfecting rather than reinventing), but ultimately
doomed to end up in the dust bin of history...

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