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chuckadams 2 days ago

He's also referred to Linux as "the GNU Emacs of all terminal emulators".

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Y_Y 2 days ago | parent [-]

> It's now the GNU Emacs of all terminal emulators.

> (Linus Torvalds, regarding the fact that Linux started off as a terminal emulator.)

http://neil.franklin.ch/Jokes_and_Fun/Linux_Quotes.html

That's the best reference I can find, but even if it's totally legit it doesn't make any sense to me.

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throwaway82332 2 days ago | parent [-]

Perhaps it's a reference to how Emacs does "everything" and some has also joked that Emacs is an OS with a text editor

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flykespice a day ago | parent [-]

Back then Emacs was considered what we call in modern software 'bloatware': resource hungry, big and full of feature creep.

BTW, in early versions of Slackware emacs was bundled in its own software category due to its huge size when selecting which packages to install on first boot.

	▲	chuckadams a day ago \| parent [-]
		Probably even had its own floppies too. Remember that install method?