hehe:-) I should learn not mess with you when you are in a writing mood:-)
your e-mail replay is *3 bigger :-)
would stop now before it would grow in e^x rate;)
Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote:
| On Tue, Mar 20, 2001, Ely Levy wrote about "Re: USB modem Linux driver":
| > comparing notepad and xemacs is not really it.
| > compare notepad to knotes 107k
| > even if xemacs was a linux program (which is not)
| > you might as well compare word to ed(74k:)
|
| Continuing my series of quotes from American TV,
| "Whatchou Talking About Wills?"
|
| 1. There is no such thing as a "Linux program" unless we're talking about
| some closed-source commercial thing. I can install KDE (and indeed, have
| done so!) on other types of Unix machines - will you then stop calling
| knotes a Linux program?
| I think that XEmacs, as a package that comes on the Redhat 7 CDROM, can
| be rightly called a "Linux program".
|
| 2. Of course comparing notepad to XEmacs is silly! That was my whole point -
| it's also silly to compare a bare-bones driver without any UI to some
| Windows driver with a lot of fancy UI around it (if it is indeed the case,
| I didn't check that actual USB modem thing). The additional size is
| not always waste, sometimes it's because of the added features (you
| can argue, however, how much these features are really needed).
|
| 3. Word and ed do completely different things: ed is a text editor, word
| is a word processor. So comparing notepad and xemacs is a better
| comparison: at least both of them were _supposed_ to do the same thing
| (though along the way Emacs turned into something that, incidentally,
| also reads your mail and plays tetris).
|
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