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Re: please giving focus on the this build error message!


From: B. T. Raven
Subject: Re: please giving focus on the this build error message!
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:48:00 GMT

"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> wrote in message
news:mailman.18078.1133833446.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
>     i built the emacs of CVS on winxp with nmake.
>
> I don't use Windows (it is non-free and therefore immoral), so I can't
> help debug this.  (I expect that those who try to support Emacs on
> Windows will try to debug this.)  But I do ave one point to make.
>
> In hacker terminology, calling something a "win" is a form of praise.
> If you wish to praise Microsoft Windows, you're free to do so; but if
you
> don't, then you might want to think twice about using the term "win95".
>
>

Maybe it should be called Billy's Gooey. Apparently Steve Jobs didn't
steal the idea from Xerox PARC but Bill certainly "stole" it from Steve,
and developed it while billing the time to IBM for OS2 development. Quae
cum ita sint (somewhere I read that rms knows Latin ;-]) what is needed
now is a version of GNU/Linux that is modularized to a very fine grain so
that that a minimally functional emacs can appear on the monitor within 2
seconds of power on. Then the rest of the OS could be loaded in the
background when and/or if called for by emacs. An appropriate hardware
platform for this might be a foldable (to 6" x 6") 88 key Dvorak keyboard
with a 7 line display (split space-bar, key-chord friendly layout: meta,
hyper, super, ctl, shift, alt,  no mouse, no graphics, but with 512 Mb of
non-volatile RAM, i.e. no moving parts except keys).
I think that edit-picture should be good enough for anyone but
radiologists and pornographers.

Ed



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