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- From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (very long)
- Message-ID: <By2MuB.87v@unix.amherst.edu>
- Organization: Elitist Usenet Administrators, Stuff & Nonsense Division
- References: <Bxw4B8.HK1@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <frain.722069508@depot.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu> <By13nJ.Axv@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 14:56:35 GMT
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- In article <By13nJ.Axv@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
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- >The point is, until I learned to FTP, make and run, I didn't have any
- >choice OTHER then vi or emacs. And I'm lucky I even know about emacs.
- >As a new user, the computer SHOULD have defaulted to an easier text
- >editor.
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- The new users here default to Emacs. That's proving troublesome, so
- they will probably default to Pico in the near future.
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