Reading Planet Debian (see, Sam, we are
still having a conversation over
there? š), I read
Anarcatās 20+ years of
Emacs. And.. Well,
should I brag contribute to the discussion? Of
course, why not?
Emacs is the first computer program I can name that I ever learnt to
use to do something minimally useful. 39 years ago.
From the Space Cadet keyboard that (obviouslyā¦)
influenced Emacsā early design
The Emacs editor was born, according to
Wikipedia, in 1976, same year as
myself. I am clearly not among its first users. It was already a
well-established citizen when I first learnt it; I am fortunate to be
the son of a Physics researcher at
UNAM, My father used to take me to his
institute after he noticed how I was attracted to computers; we would
usually spend some hours there between 7 and 11PM on Friday
nights. His institute had a computer room where they had very sweet
gear: Some 10 Heathkit terminals quite similar to this one:
The terminals were connected (via individual switches) to both a
PDP-11 and a Foonly F2
computers. The room also had a beautiful
