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Re: memes (Was: Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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