jmik@topaz.rutgers.edu (Rev. Joseph Miklojcik) (08/10/89)
I found this in an OLD dusty manual here at our office "What is EMACS? It is a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it. It is a beautiful flower that smells awful." This was the opening quote to the introduction, taken from some unnamed source. The manual was evidently written by James Gosling, and is Copyright (c) 1983. That Emacs (version 264) was being sold by a company called Unipress Software. DISCLAIMER: I work for Unipress Software, and whatever you can infer from the above paragraphs are completely my own opinions and thoughts (save the quote). I am in all ways responsible for it. --joe
sdl@MBUNIX.MITRE.ORG (Litvintchouk) (08/14/89)
> I found this in an OLD dusty manual here at our office > > "What is EMACS? It is a tree falling in the forest with no one to > hear it. It is a beautiful flower that smells awful." > > This was the opening quote to the introduction, taken from some > unnamed source. I thought everyone knew that this was actually Mr. Spock's definition of "logic" given in an old Star Trek episode ("I, Mudd", if memory serves correctly). Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" -- J. Nicholson