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- From: davidm@consilium.com (David S. Masterson)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Terminal vs. workstations productivity
- Message-ID: <DAVIDM.92Nov7154111@consilium.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 23:41:11 GMT
- References: <BEVAN.92Nov3232420@hippo.cs.man.ac.uk>
- <1992Nov6.075017.22154@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
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- In-reply-to: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk's message of 6 Nov 92 20:43:26 GMT
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- >>>>> On 6 Nov 92 20:43:26 GMT, bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) said:
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- > In article <1992Nov6.075017.22154@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
- > mfr@Informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE. (Michael Froehlich) writes:
-
- > Yes, of course. That's a great solution.
- > I know a lot of people tieing their shoe-laces with a pair of pincers :-)
-
- > I thought the usual complaint was that (GNU) Emacs was much to large
- > and so a better analogy would be tying your shoelaces with a robot arm
- > hooked up to some virtual reality kit.
-
- In comparison to X?? If that's the analogy for Emacs, then the analogy for X
- must be like tying your shoelaces with three hundred, independently thinking
- hands -- eventually it can be done, but do you really need all the excess
- power and capability?
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