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From: cseaman@sequent.UUCP (Chris "The Bartman" Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: HEY- editor wars!
Message-ID: <51790@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 91 17:00:37 GMT
References: <1991Jan25.000005.23489@osceola.cs.ucf.edu> <HINKER.91Jan28141312@cub_2.acl.lanl.gov>
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Beaverton, OR
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hinker@acl.lanl.gov (Paul J. Hinker) writes:
< >swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes:
< >>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] 

Sigh... I had hoped to stay out of this...  Nahhhh!

OK boys, everyone knows that REAL programmers punch their binary code
directly onto paper tape (with a nail), then load that through a
home-made paper tape reader.

Oh, by the way... :-)

Regards,
Chris

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