[ale] Re: Emacs and RMS (was Re: [ale] gentoo)

[Geoffrey]

Michael Hirsch wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 12:37, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Michael Hirsch wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Also interesting to me was that Stallman was not a Unix hacker when the
>>>GNU project was started.  He cast around for a good OS to clone and
>>>decided that Unix was it, but MIT, where RMS lived, was not a Unix
>>>shop.  He was a multics hacker.
>>
>>Yes, but do you know the comment that K or R (I don't recall which) made 
>>regarding a comparison of multics and unix?

In deference to the 'ladies' on the list, I'll paraphase it something 
like this:

Unix is like multics with it's 'privates cut off.'

> 
> 
> Nope.
> 
> MIchael
> 
> 


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