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Date:      Thu, 20 Feb 97 18:00:27 +0100
From:      Lars Gerhard Kuehl <lars@elbe.desy.de>
To:        arne@Steinkamm.COM
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: text editors
Message-ID:  <9702201700.AA10729@elbe.desy.de>

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> > On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Robin Melville wrote:
> > 
> > > Is it true as rumoured that emacs stands for Eight Megabytes and Continues to Swap?
> > 
> > no; emacs macht alle computer scho\"en.
>
> As a german native speaker i can't prevent to understand this sentence,

Though my mother tongue is german, too, I remap it to
"emacs makes all computers slow". And I'm sure there can't
many claiming:

> but, i insist, it's *NOT* true !

Lars



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