[Gllug] vi vs emacs (repeat)

[Rich Walker]

Chris Bell <chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk> writes:

> On Wed 09 Mar, Tethys wrote:
>
>> Anyone want to fill in the blanks?
>
>    I am still using my old Acorn RISC PC for many things, including emails
> using the "Ant Internet Suite", although I have a Linux keyboard immediately

We use an Acorn RISC PC for the payroll software.

And another one for the bosses' !Alarm database - which has grown to
such a size over the years that there's just no point trying to get him
to use anything else.

> behind the Acorn keyboard, and I can reach an Acorn A540 and about 10 other
> Linux keyboards from here (of course I rarely do that, I usually access them
> from either the Acorn or my main Linux box). Most of the boxes are very old,
> and doing fairly simple things. It says a lot for the old Acorns that they
> are still going well, although they were very expensive to buy.

£1-2k for a workstation - I think they weren't *that* expensive, just
that people compared the prices to PC's rather than, say, Sun boxes...

cheers, Rich.

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