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> It's now the GNU Emacs of all terminal emulators. > (Linus Torvalds, regarding the fact that Linux started off as a terminal emulator.) http://neil.franklin
by Y_Y 1y ago
> It's now the GNU Emacs of all terminal emulators.
> (Linus Torvalds, regarding the fact that Linux started off as a terminal
emulator.)
http://neil.franklin.ch/Jokes_and_Fun/Linux_Quotes.html http://neil.franklin.ch/Jokes_and_Fun/Linux_Quotes.html
That's the best reference I can find, but even if it's totally legit it doesn't make any sense to me.
- throwaway82332 1y agoPerhaps it's a reference to how Emacs does "everything" and some has also joked that Emacs is an OS with a text editor
- flykespice 1y agoBack then Emacs was considered what we call in modern software 'bloatware': resource hungry, big and full of feature creep. BTW, in early versions of Slackware emacs was bundled in its own software category due to its huge size when selecting which packages to install on first boot.
- chuckadams 1y agoProbably even had its own floppies too. Remember that install method?