Sometimes the serious training wheels on the system make sense, especially when navigating the learning curve. Other times, the need to have direct hardware ac

Sometimes the serious training wheels on the system make sense, especially when navigating the learning curve. Other times, the need to have direct hardware access from the BIOS on up cannot be avoided. The bugaboo is the quest for the One True System that is all things to all people. Emacs is as close as we get to that Nirvana.