From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>
Subject: Re: Somewhat on Topic: Word Processing
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 16:56:51 -0500
Date: 2003-03-05T16:56:51-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E6672A3.2030605@cogeco.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b45n94$bad$1@oanews.nswc.navy.mil
Dave Head wrote:
> "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:JZo9a.25710$8f7.21367@nwrdny02.gnilink.net...
>
>>Would WordStar have survived if it was rewritten in Ada?
>
>
> No. The thing that killed WordStar is having to memorize all those keyboard
> key combinations. Nobody wants to do that. Its also why EMACS hasn't taken
> over the world's programming consoles except on those owned by people with
> really, really good memories.
>
> Dave Head
Ha! I have a lousy memory, but EMACS is where I live. "Those
keyboard combinations" are perfectly natural responses, after all! ;-)
--
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-05 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-05 15:46 Somewhat on Topic: Word Processing Frank J. Lhota
2003-03-05 20:40 ` Dave Head
2003-03-05 21:09 ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-03-05 21:47 ` Pascal Obry
2003-03-05 22:37 ` Robert A Duff
2003-03-05 23:29 ` DPH
2003-03-06 0:09 ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-03-06 1:57 ` John R. Strohm
2003-03-06 19:45 ` Stephen Leake
2003-03-07 1:50 ` DPH
2003-03-07 15:06 ` Stephen Leake
2003-03-07 17:22 ` Pascal Obry
2003-03-05 21:56 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG [this message]
2003-03-06 14:06 ` Peter Hermann
2003-03-06 19:47 ` Stephen Leake
2003-03-06 7:18 ` Preben Randhol
2003-03-06 14:29 ` Dave Head
2003-03-06 14:44 ` Peter Hermann
2003-03-06 18:00 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-03-06 19:00 ` Ludovic Brenta
2003-03-06 19:50 ` Stephen Leake
2003-03-06 23:02 ` Georg Bauhaus
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