That's a nice point; I got thrown into the deep end by a bunch of crazy mathematicians in the summer of 81: C, K&R, Unix, commodities forecasting. I learned vi then. So at the time there was no choice.
My first experience with emacs I can't quite date; my macsyma program crashed, the OS (whatever it was, probabaly VMS on vaxen) command interpreter prompt suddenly went away, and I was flabbergasted. Did I just crash the DuPont Experimental Station Vax network? So I learned to quit out of emacs before I learned to enter into it. Peter On 7/22/08, Bob Drzyzgula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:54:47AM -0400, Bob Drzyzgula wrote: > > > > Gosling wrote his Emacs in 1981, and Unipress Emacs started > > shipping in 1983 for $399 per seat. > > > Sorry -- actually looking again I see it said $395, not > $399, not that this makes any difference. But thinking > back I expect that this was $395 per *system*, which is > only per seat if you're talking about workstations, and > in those days we used workstations as multi-user systems > anyway. I doubt there was any license management mechanism > available at the time that could have enforced a per-user > license. Still, it was a lot of money. > > > --Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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