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Re: memes (Was: Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?)
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Date: 
Mon, 6 Mar 2000 04:11:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
No, I never did reveal it because no one ever gave it much of a try.

Frank is correct in his identification. I'd posit that more people use
XEDIT without realising it than any other text editor anywhere, and that
will remain true (by a careful definition of what a text editor is, the
category is blurring away out of possible categorization) as long as
there are significant numbers of 370 architecture derived machines out
there.

Of course the average IBMer doesn't use XEDIT (in any guise) much anymore. We
use Lotus Notes for e-mail (now there's something to debate on...).

Frank



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  Re: memes (Was: Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?)
 
(...) Ugh. I absolutely hate maintaining a Notes Server. And until recently, the client was incredibly horrible. Both scored negative points with me in terms of user-friendliness and flexability. But: I understand that, using the right combination (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: memes (Was: Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?)
 
Every Notes installation I've ever seen in real life (outside of IBM, that is) (and I've seen a bunch, trust me) always seemed to have a PROFS installation running somewhere too, for calendaring. Dunno why. I digress... PROFS is just a shell on top (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: memes (Was: Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?)
 
No, I never did reveal it because no one ever gave it much of a try. Frank is correct in his identification. I'd posit that more people use XEDIT without realising it than any other text editor anywhere, and that will remain true (by a careful (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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