From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!ucbvax!C70:editor-people
Newsgroups: fa.editor-p
Title: Re: The Recent Roast
Article-I.D.: ucb.1317
Posted: Thu Jun 10 02:19:55 1982
Received: Fri Jun 11 01:06:54 1982
Reply-To: ople

>From LCAMPBELL@DEC-MARLBORO Thu Jun 10 02:18:04 1982
Remailed-date: 10 Jun 1982 0001-PDT
Remailed-from: J.Q. Johnson 
Remailed-to: Editor People: ;

Regardless of the relative merits of EMACS vs. Z, if EMACS has
(for example only) 10,000 users and Z has 1,000, it makes a whole
lot of sense to add features to the monitor to speed up EMACS.
Computer manufacturers don't spend millions of dollars developing
COBOL systems and adding hairy packed-decimal instructions to their
machines because they like COBOL;  they do it because there are
zillions of COBOL users out there.
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