[Glastonbury] last night's meeting

Sean Miller sean at seanmiller.net
Fri Mar 12 07:11:07 GMT 2004


> > he meant Xemacs, of course   :)
>
> No I bloody didn't - I did all that from the command line :) XEmacs
> may, conceivably, make it easier to do all this with a mouse - but
> never underestimate the potential need for a serial console / a 2400
> baud modem [9600 was more expensive - you had to dial Birmingham/Bristol
> to get a line ... ]

Well said Mr Cater, Sir! If it ain't worth doing from the command line then
it probably ain't worth doing at all ! :-)

Myself, didn't ever get to 2400 baud... went straight from 1200/75 to
14,400...

Sean




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