Tracy R Reed wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Emacs has lots of kruft and complexity due to its age. If you like
elisp plugins then maybe you will like Eclipse plugins. I just
downloaded Eclipse plugins for Python and Subversion support.
I haven't noticed it getting any more krufty or complex in all of the
years I have been watching it from a distance. Todays emacs seems pretty
similar to the emacs that came with my slackware distro years ago. Do
eclipse plugins have to be written in java?
DOS has been around for years too. :)
No, it hasn't. Or perhaps I should say it really isn't around anymore.
It came out in 1981 and pretty much died with Windows 95. So it had a
run of 14 years which isn't bad. But Unix is at around 36 years and
counting. I don't know anyone who runs DOS and I haven't seen it on
store shelves in many years. It's dead for all practical purposes.
Because it wasn't very good. Unix was around before DOS and it will
remain around long after.
Windows98 came with DOS, and was available until 2004, so that'd be 23
some-odd years.
As a standalone product, it was available until 2001.
I don't know when IBM stopped selling it.
Not as many as the various incarnations of Unix, but still more than 14.
Microsoft doesn't stop beating a horse until it's truly dead.
heh.
-ajb
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