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From: | Lars Brinkhoff |
Subject: | Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs |
Date: | Thu, 10 Sep 2020 18:50:51 +0000 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) |
T.V Raman wrote: > Lars Brinkhoff wrote: >> Emacs is a manifestation of the ITS user interfaces. They all relied >> on text because that's all that was available back then. > The assertion that it's so because all they had then was text is > seriously short-changing and even somewhat insulting to the thought > that has likely gone into Emacs' design --- folks like RMS can likely > speak to that more than I can. Those user interfaces were invented in the 1960s, and mostly used teletypes for interaction.
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