Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!rutgers!cmcl2!lanl!beta.lanl.gov!hinker From: hinker@acl.lanl.gov (Paul J. Hinker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: HEY- editor wars! Message-ID: Date: 28 Jan 91 21:13:12 GMT References: <1991Jan25.000005.23489@osceola.cs.ucf.edu> <4bcMrzy00awG0BdkYQ@andrew.cmu.edu> <1991Jan26.215740.21010@convex.com> <1991Jan26.231657.2806@portia.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@lanl.gov Reply-To: hinker@acl.lanl.gov Organization: Advanced Computing Lab, LANL, NM Lines: 37 In-reply-to: bard@jessica.stanford.edu's message of 26 Jan 91 23:16:57 GMT . In article swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes: . >In article ms0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Gordon Shapiro) writes: . > [...] . >>You're all saps. ED from WorkBench 1.0 rules. Better yet, EDIT. . >>Actually, I don't use editors. I just type ASCII values into a program . >>that writes them sequentially to disk. . > [...] . >What a wimp! You have to type ASCII values???? . > . >Real Amiga programmers type the binary bits directly onto the disk in real . >time as it spins ... . Ha! You guys are patty cakes. _I_ use a magnetized pin to enter the the binary bits to the disk head as it spins. [Insert :-) as necessary] . . >--Steve ._||__ DISCLAIMER: All opinions are my own. . > Warren v\ *| ---------------------------------------------- . > V {uunet,sun}!convex!swarren; swarren@convex.com . . Dave Hopper | /// Yesterday, CS. | Academic Info Resources . | __ /// Today, Anthropology. | Mac & UNIX Sys-Support . bard@jessica. | \\\/// | "Somebody get me a job . Stanford.EDU | \XX/ Tomorrow: napping in gutters.| with a computer I LIKE" Paul Hinker hinker@acl.lanl.gov /// If it works, it's not state-of-the-art MS B287 505-665-4531 /// --Hansen's Law Los Alamos National Labs ACL \\\/// All our stuff is broke Los Alamos, NM 87545 \XX/ --Forslund's Corollary -- Paul Hinker hinker@acl.lanl.gov /// If it works, it's not state-of-the-art MS B287 505-665-4531 /// --Hansen's Law Los Alamos National Labs ACL \\\/// All our stuff is broke Los Alamos, NM 87545 \XX/ --Forslund's Corollary