21 Oct
2016
21 Oct
'16
4:11 a.m.
From: Lars Brinkhoff
Emacs in 1983 would have been Gosling Emacs, I guess.
Prior to that one, someone else at BBN (whose name I have forgotten, alas)
did an Emacs intended for PDP-11's running Unix. It wasn't programmable (the
way 'real' Emacs is), perhaps because there was not enough room for that on a
PDP-11.
I should have that on my MIT-CSR backup tapes, but if you're interested in a
copy, it will be a while before I can excavate it; the tapes had some
dropouts, which may have made the dump (a straight 'dd' of a 4.3 filesystem)
unreadable.
Noel
21 Oct
21 Oct
5:07 a.m.
Noel Chiappa writes:
Sounds vaguely like MicroEMACS by Dave Conroy, but I suppose this is
something else? Unix V6 you say? Was it BBN PEN by David Barach, David
Taenzer, and Robert Wells?
Emacs in 1983
would have been Gosling Emacs, I guess.
Prior to that one, someone else at BBN (whose name I have forgotten,
alas) did an Emacs intended for PDP-11's running Unix. It wasn't
programmable (the way 'real' Emacs is), perhaps because there was not
enough room for that on a PDP-11. I should have that on my MIT-CSR backup tapes, but if
you're
interested in a copy, it will be a while before I can excavate it
Yes, I am! I don't think I can take on every single variation of Emacs,
but a version this early is interesting.
11:02 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 4:11 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
I would love to have an Emacs I could run on my Pro-380. Then I can do
some real work with it.
--
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The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
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From: Lars
Brinkhoff
Emacs in 1983 would have been Gosling Emacs, I
guess.
Prior to that one, someone else at BBN (whose name I have forgotten, alas)
did an Emacs intended for PDP-11's running Unix. It wasn't programmable
(the
way 'real' Emacs is), perhaps because there was not enough room for that
on a
PDP-11.
I should have that on my MIT-CSR backup tapes, but if you're interested in
a
copy, it will be a while before I can excavate it; the tapes had some
dropouts, which may have made the dump (a straight 'dd' of a 4.3
filesystem)
unreadable.
Noel
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