Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site yetti.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!yetti!oz
From: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: net.sources.d,net.emacs
Subject: Re: MicroEMACS & GNUmacs compatibility?
Message-ID: <369@yetti.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Apr-86 00:19:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: yetti.369
Posted: Mon Apr 28 00:19:58 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 28-Apr-86 17:55:09 EDT
References: <452@bu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Organization: York University Computer Science
Lines: 31
Keywords: tinyness, emacs-s
Xref: utcs net.sources.d:170 net.emacs:1883
Summary: 

In article <452@bu-cs.UUCP> bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>
>Just to play the cynic, by the time such a subset was agreed upon and
>implemented a 'tiny' machine will be a lot 'bigger' and faster than
>the 750 GNU emacs was developed on (probably 1+MB, 1MIP.)
>
	Well, let's discuss this cynic to cynic:

	How long do *you* think it will take to *functionally* replace
	all existing Apple-][s, Trs80s, 64Ks, various z80-based
	cp/m systems, ordinary IBM-PCs, pdp-11s, (although 780's came
	about 1978, Pdp-11's are still there, and doing useful things..)  
	etc, etc, etc.. ????? 

	Do you really believe just because ATARI-ST is such a popular
	and powerful system, everybody, including your neigbourhood
	cabbie is junking their systems, and software just so that 
	they can start from scratch ?? [If you do, I have this great
	piece of land ... :-)]
	
	I believe in *alternatives*. GNU effort is an alternative to
	licenced, no-source, high-priced software. uEmacs, Jove, Elle
	are alternatives to big, memory-hungry, disk-hungry, complex
	Emacses.

	oZ
-- 
The best way to have a 		Usenet: [decvax|ihnp4]!utzoo!yetti!oz
good idea is to have a 		Bitnet: oz@[yusol|yuyetti].BITNET
lot of ideas.			Phonet: [416] 667-3976