Re: [Beowulf] Re: Religious wars

[Gerry Creager]

Didn't EVERYONE learn c by reading K&R?  I started with joe because of 
muscle memory in my fingers for WordStar but went to vi 'cause it's 
almost everywhere.

Peter St. John wrote:
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] 
<[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

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