I wonder what one Gauss used when he did his first signal processing
calculations? (Smile)

        Dennis



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Quitt, Walter [SMTP:wquitt@MICROJOIN.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 April 2000 4:03
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [OT] "Best" Editor (was: "Syntax Highlighting in MPLAB")
>
> Am I dating myself if I dare say I used TOPS?
> Can you say TECO?
>
> I still shudder....
>
> -Walt :-) :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Chops Westfield [mailto:billw@CISCO.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 10:16 AM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [OT] "Best" Editor (was: "Syntax Highlighting in MPLAB")
>
>
>     xxxxxxxx clearly is the best Windows editor there is.
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> This is the problem, of course (or part of it, anyway.)  When I picked my
> editor, I wanted something that ran on CPM, TOPS20, TOPS10, and unix.  At
> the time, EMACS was the only thing that came close (MINCE for CPM, FINE
> for
> tops10, elle or cmuemacs for unix, IIRC.)  Nowdays the situation is a bit
> cleaner, since PCs have approached the capabilities (performance-wise) of
> the mainframes of yore (so more editors are available cross-platform and
> more consistant versions), and the number of contending operating systems
> has gone down (a bad thing, IMHO, but still a fact of life.)  But the
> number
> of editors that you can run on all of (MacOS, unix, Windows) is still
> pretty
> small.  (of course, what with mice and more consistant function key
> behavior, it's now pretty easy to do "simple" editing tasks all in GUI
> windows, but that's not a "real" editor...)
>
> BillW