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[Geoffrey]

Well, I really do remember throwing switches to reprogram an old pdp...

Jim wrote:

> Or, as the geezer-geek would say (in the voice of Dana Carvey's "angry 
> old man):
> 
> "I can remember when we had to enter our commands in a stone tablet! in 
> Cuneiform!! 'Cuz that's the way it was. And we LIKED it!!"
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> Geoffrey wrote:
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>> Swantje Willms wrote:
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>>> When was that? I've happily been using Emacs for more than 10 years ;-P
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>> 11 years ago.. :)
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>>>> Yeah, back when we were running 3b2s with 4 meg of memory, we used 
>>>> to joke that EMACS stood for 'Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping.'  
>>>> Funny that joke just doesn't carry the weight it once did....
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