Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 12:28:18 +0800 (CST) From: grog@lemis.de To: arne@Steinkamm.COM (Arne Steinkamm) Cc: fn@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu, robmel@innotts.co.uk, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au, eivind@dimaga.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: text editors Message-ID: <199702250428.MAA00393@papillon.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199702201408.PAA17241@oldman.steinkamm.com> from Arne Steinkamm at "Feb 20, 97 03:08:50 pm"
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Arne Steinkamm writes: > >> 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, > but, i insist, it's *NOT* true ! Of course not. As a speaker to German natives, I can state: "Emacs macht alle Computer schön. TeX macht Computer und ihre Benutzer verr\"uckt (nicht verru\"eckt)." BTW, the original expansion was "Eight Megabytes And Continually Swapping". But that's what you get for not enough memory. Greg
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