Re: NO OS WARS!! (was RE: [Thinkpad] What OS to use?)

if memory serves, EDLIN was that wonderful little text
editor that came with CP/M..
(yet another OS of a sort)..
you entered text blind, and only saw what you had after you
hit CRLF..
i think.. :-)

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Cordially,
Bill Morrow
(from NetFinity Server)
web page: http://www.thinkpads.com
bill@thinkpads.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mick McQuaid" <mcquaid@u.arizona.edu>
To: "Jane Loyless" <jloyless@netbox.com>
Cc: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: NO OS WARS!! (was RE: [Thinkpad] What OS to
use?)

> The problem is obviously that the mini-faq is out
> of date. Cobol vs C??? What is Edlin??? Make it
> Perl vs. Python or Vim vs. Xemacs or SuSE vs.
> Mandrake---then people will read it carefully and
> stop the religious wars once and for all. I'm
> almost certain.
>
> ... regarding a message from Jane Loyless on Aug 24:
> > Did you think I wasn't watching? Take it outside,
please, gentlemen.
> >
> > From the Mini-FAQ:
> >
> > 9) My ___________ is better than your ___________!
> >
> >
> > Please refrain from fighting classic battles like
Windows vs any-other-OS,
> > top posting vs bottom posting, COBOL vs C, Edlin vs VI,
Coke vs Pepsi, etc,
> > etc, etc on this list. It's seldom that anyone will
convert, and it just
> > gets ugly. Take it to an advocacy group somewhere. This
list is for
> > ThinkPad issues.
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