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From: mark@ems.UUCP (Mark Colburn)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Question of curiosity: who is still buying Unipress or CCA?
Message-ID: <9@ems.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 03:57:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: ems.9
Posted: Fri Oct  3 03:57:27 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Oct-86 10:18:17 EDT
References: <5205@cbrma.UUCP>
Organization: EMS/McGraw-Hill, Eden Prairie, MN
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Summary: Unipress Emacs

In article <5205@cbrma.UUCP>, karl@cbrma.UUCP (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
> 
> Is anyone still shelling out real $$$ to buy either Unipress' or CCA's
> emacs programs? 

We are currently running a copy of Unipress Emacs.  I think that the main
reason that we were willing to shell out $1,000 for Emacs was due to the
fact that we were not connected to Usenet at the time that we purchased it
and so we were not aware that a portable public domain version existed; also
the amount of time that was spent to get the system up was minimal.

Unipress was very helpful in helping us get the system up and running on our
Arete 1200.  Also, we can get upgrades and documentation from Unipress for
little to no cost and be sure that they will work on our machine with very
little effort on our part.

This is not a plug for Unipress Emacs, merely some reasons why people might
be willing to shell out real dollars to get a package such as Emacs that is
also in the public domain.  I think that if I had known about GNU Emacs prior
to the purchase of Unipress, we would have gotten GNU Emacs.  Oh, well.

I would still be interesting in getting a copy of GNU Emacs and comparing it
to Unipress Emacs and seeing what the differences are.  When I do, I will 
post the results to the net if there is an interest for this information.


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Mark H. Colburn             UUCP: ihnp4!rosevax!ems!mark
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