Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 16:32 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> marc wrote:
> > No one expects a mail reader to be a word
> > processor - except M$ - nor a wordprocessor to be a mail reader - except
> > M$. QED :-)
>
> You're wrong on the second one. EMACS was trying to wrangle a mail reader
> out of a text editor long before Microsoft got the idea and ran with it. ;P
Yeah, back in the day, vi users would say, "why use Emacs, I've
already got an OS".
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"save precious water" by using a low-flow toilet (even though I
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boot... now we need to flush the toilet 2 or more times per
"incident", _using_more_water_, or risk clogging it up.
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