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. JohnsonRemailed-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. --------