Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:09:18AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > I *definitely* remember using emacs like this. I do not remember what
> > operating system it was on. It may well have been 15 years ago.
>
> Not denying that. But you said there was "No mechanism even for multiple
> virtual CLI consoles." That means, putting it bluntly, that it pre-dated
> screen. I'm not saying emacs can't do it. I'm asking for verification that
> it did it well in advance of screen which *does* provide multiple CLI consoles.
>
> Personally I can only go back as far as my first unix experience which is
> 10 years ago. I know that screen existed then as I used it all the time on
> Netcom. However since that's as far back as I can personally verify that is
> why I am asking for verification of your statement.
Of course it's always posible that I just didn't *know* about screen.
-- hendrik
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