>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Parratt <> writes: Robert> See below. No replies... please! Take everything with a :> I'll take it all with a grin, after all that is how my origianl post was meant, but if you didn't want replies you shouldn't have sent a message, this is a list for discussion, after all. Robert> Something that's ugly regardless of the environment it's under... Thankfully, emacs is not ugly (at least it doesn't *sound* ugly to me). Since the user can control the way it looks, sounds and behaves, I guess that if you *wanted* an ugly setup, you could *create* one that is ugly to suit your tastes. Robert> As long as they have three hands to press the key combinations... Odd, I control emacs with a single BAT, one hand, 7 keys total. Robert> And something that can destroy a high powered computers Robert> performance in nano seconds, reducing the resources left to Robert> the rest of the system being akin to a Sinclair/Timex ZX81... True, speech input still has a way to go <grin>. One reason I still use emacs without it. Eating cycles is an argument I have heard before, oddly enough as configured emacs does not kick my cpu out of idle mode much so I don't see it. It is not *fast* but as an experimentor I am willing to sacrifice some speed for flexibility and open source. As for reducing my rig to a Timex/Sinclair well, I occationaly run dosemu from *within* emacs, so I know there is at least the power of an 8086 left over which I hope you will agree is more powerfull than a TImex/Sinclair. <grin> Emacs should not be the *end* of UI development (strictly speeking it is not a UI anyway it just seems that way to those of us that live in it) but as it is something many of us use day in day out on wearable platforms that are our primary systems, it is at least a good benchmark. I threw away my older wearable system 5 years ago when Linux + emacs + emacspeak came around. I hope I will be just as quick to toss them when something that does more for me and is still Open Source comes around. I have a feeling that may take a while though... Which all leads me to one question: What UI do you use on your wearable? How much of every day do you wear? How is it on power consumption? How is it on resource management? How is it in letting you do what you need to do? Do your posts to this list originate from it? I am keen to know. Greg -- Greg Priest-Dorman
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