16 Jul
2012
16 Jul
'12
5:19 p.m.
From: Richard
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 3:01 PM
Anyone got one? I'm curious to look at it.
According to
<http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/internals_3.html>, it
was a merger of TECMACS and TMACS.
How about http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/ ? I gave Tim a copy of the
sources a very very long time ago, and they're still there. Scroll down.
In case you wonder why I say "I gave...", I'll quote an ancient .sig
I used to use:
Rich Alderson Last LOTS Tops-20 Systems Programmer, 1984-1991
Current maintainer, MIT TECO EMACS (v. 170)
last name @ XKL dot COM Customer Interface, XKL LLC
I became the de facto maintainer the year I posted a Y2K fix to the TIME
library to comp.emacs, gnu.emacs.bug, and gnu.emacs.<I forget which>, with
incredulous but supportive responses from RMS and Kent Pitman (author of
the library in question).
The early history of EMACS is a little more complex that what you paraphrase
from the XEmacs docs. According to folks at the AI Lab
at the time, RMS
went around to every single user of ^R mode in TECO (which he had
written)
and collected all of their personalized macros, then rationalized the table
of assignments. EMACS is far more than just "a merger of TECMACS and TMACS".
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/