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From: mechjgh@tness1.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Mach, the new standard?
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Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 22:22:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 31 22:22:19 1987
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Reply-To: mechjgh@tness1.UUCP (Greg Hackney)
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>I'll support the Free Software Foundation when they give up their processor
>bigotry and decide to support the machine architecture that I use (PC/AT).
>(Disclaimer: Last I heard on the subject, the position was "Intel? Not until
>hell freezes over!"

Not to beat this dead horse... but I just ran across an old interview between
RMS and Byte Magazine (in the standard emacs distribution):

 *******************
   BYTE: Can you say something about what types of machines and environments
   GNU EMACS in particular has been made to run under?  It's now running on
   VAXes; has it migrated in any form to personal computers? ........

   Stallman: .........................Of course, I am not designing the
   software to run on the kinds of computers that are prevalent today.  I knew
   when I started this project it was going to take a few years.  I therefore
   decided that I didn't want to make a worse system by taking on the
   additional challenge of making it run in the currently constrained
   environment.  So instead I decided I'm going to write it in the way that
   seems the most natural and best.  I am confident that in a couple of years
   machines of sufficient size will be prevalent.
 *******************


I suppose there IS a method to the madness. Smiling Richard ?