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Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
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Date: Sat, 29-Aug-87 20:58:41 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 29 20:58:41 1987
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Reply-To: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Daniel Lawrence)
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In article <7919@think.UUCP> rlk@THINK.COM writes:

[Long quote about the FSF.....]

>1)  Good question.  Why should you?  You can get Microemacs and
>MicroGnuEmacs from the net, either of which will run quite nicely on
>an AT.  These don't have the programming power that GNU Emacs has, but
>for editing text I'm told that they are quite good.  A lot of
>GNU utilities will run on 286 class machines; I know that one company
>sells Bison for $25.  The kernel won't, though.
>

This is mainly to clear up a point. MicroEMACS 3.9 has (and has had for
a few versions) an extensive programming language which will allow most
any task to be accomplished.

As far as GNU Emacs and the FSF is concerned, these people have done a
marvelous job of bringing a useful, versitile product to a lot of
people. Those like myself, making new programs, have only done this by
building on their experience.  I think we should be thankful for this
and not complain if they can't give us our every wish.

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