That's a nice point; I got thrown into the deep end by a bunch of crazy
mathematicians in the summer of 81: C, K&R, Unix, commodities
forecasting. I learned vi then. So at the time there was no choice.<br>
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My first experience with emacs I can't quite date; my macsyma program
crashed, the OS (whatever it was, probabaly VMS on vaxen) command
interpreter prompt suddenly went away, and I was flabbergasted. Did I
just crash the DuPont Experimental Station Vax network? So I learned to
quit out of emacs before I learned to enter into it.<br>
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Peter<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/22/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bob Drzyzgula</b> <<a href="mailto:bob@drzyzgula.org">bob@drzyzgula.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:54:47AM -0400, Bob Drzyzgula wrote:<br> ><br> > Gosling wrote his Emacs in 1981, and Unipress Emacs started<br> > shipping in 1983 for $399 per seat.<br> <br> <br>Sorry -- actually looking again I see it said $395, not<br>
$399, not that this makes any difference. But thinking<br> back I expect that this was $395 per *system*, which is<br> only per seat if you're talking about workstations, and<br> in those days we used workstations as multi-user systems<br>
anyway. I doubt there was any license management mechanism<br> available at the time that could have enforced a per-user<br> license. Still, it was a lot of money.<br> <br><br> --Bob<br> <br> _______________________________________________<br>
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