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From: neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP (Paul Neubauer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.editors
Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
Message-ID: <6358@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 89 14:07:52 GMT
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Reply-To: neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP (Paul Neubauer)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <4392@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>Gregg Wonderly (gregg@ihlpb.ATT.COM) writes: (edited considerably--pn)
> >My opinion ... xMACS ... lisp ... failed miserably in speed.
> >... fast programable editor ... DEC's TPU for VMS.
>
>Hear, hear! Just couldn't agree more. Emacs may have cool 
>functionality, but I doubt to call it a serious editor,  
>after all the times I just waited for it to echo a typed 
>character. Now, TPU, that is a serious editor. 

I don't want to throw too much cold water on anyone.  I happen to like both,
and have written several thousand lines of TPU myself.  I just think that we
need to keep in mind what environments we are dealing with.  Here (Ball St.
U.) we have a cluster of 3 11/785's and 1 8650 with far too many users.
Waiting for EVE to echo a character can be just as frustrating as waiting
for GNUemacs on the 785 running BSD4.3 that I am writing this on.  (Though
actually I am using JOVE right now.)  If you want responsiveness, there is
virtually no alternative to having a system dedicated to you, whether that
is a personal microcomputer or a very lightly loaded VAX or whatever other
lightly loaded system.

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Paul Neubauer         neubauer@bsu-cs.bsu.edu        neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP
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