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From: phr@ernie.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin)
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Subject: emacs
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 22:40:19 EST
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	From KFL@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU Wed Mar  5 18:10:39 1986
	From: "Keith F. Lynch" <KFL@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU>
	Subject: emacs
	
	  Well, GNU Emacs is not available for MS-DOS machines.  It requires
	525k of memory, which is more than most MS-DOS machines have
	available anyway.  And it costs $165 to order.
	  I think there is a great market for an editor which has everything
	Emacs has EXCEPT the built in Lisp, and which is relatively small and
	is available for for $30 to $60 or so.
						...Keith
	
The $165 (actually $150) is a tape copying fee; you don't have to pay
anything to get a copy of GNU Emacs (just copy it from someone who has
it, or ftp it from mit-prep.  See net.emacs or the equivalent arpa
lists for info on how to do this).  $150 is what FSF charges to ship a
tape regardless of what is on it.  You get a some other software on
that tape as well, such as a yacc-compatible parser generator and the
all important hack game.

Several ersatz (i.e., non-extensible) emacses are being marketed more
or less the way you describe.  But why get any of them, when you can
get Jove or MicroEmacs?  There are public domain versions of both of
these, and they are quite small.

Please move this discussion away from info-law.