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From: ds@hollin.prime.com
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Manifesto question
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Date: 20 Aug 89 00:45:00 GMT
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EMACS could and still can be regarded either as system software or an
application program.  Since these terms are relative, not absolute, there can
never be a final answer to such a question.

BTW, I once did a lot of programming on a TOPS-20 system that did not have
EMACS.  I used an editor that maintained a line number at the start of each
line in each file.  Luckily, the nature of my task was such that I didn't
really need the interactive support provided by EMACS.

David Spector
ds@primerd.prime.com