From: Chris Hanson <cmhanson@eschatologist.net>
To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Emacs (was: Isaacson v Unix)
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 22:26:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16571FEB-7E52-44ED-B773-B23E8BE7FAD9@eschatologist.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190106024054.GA27103@eureka.lemis.com>
On Jan 5, 2019, at 6:40 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
>
> On Saturday, 5 January 2019 at 17:43:43 -0800, Chris Hanson wrote:
>> On Jan 5, 2019, at 7:31 AM, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> +1. RMS always talked big but the real work was done by other people.
>>> GCC was Tiemann at Sun and then at Cygnus, groff was James Clark,
>>> etc. I think RMS hacked on emacs but not much else.
>>
>> Which I thought was originally derived from Unipress emacs
>> (Gosmacs), and was why old source code used to be hard to find.
>
> I don't think there's any serious doubt that rms wrote the original
> Emacs, in TECO.
That’s not what I’m referring to, I’m referring to GNU emacs.
(Also, he didn’t write the original emacs. He took it over.)
> If I understand it correctly, though, he took
> significant improvements, including screen redisplay, from Gosling
> Emacs.
GNU emacs is not a descendant of the TECO package. What I’m referring to is that GNU emacs started as a set of hacks on Gosmacs, and the Gosmacs code had to be excised because it wasn’t actually something FSF could redistribute as their own.
-- Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-06 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-05 2:26 [TUHS] Isaacson v Unix Doug McIlroy
2019-01-05 2:35 ` Ronald Natalie
2019-01-05 15:31 ` Larry McVoy
2019-01-05 17:01 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-05 20:27 ` Paul Winalski
2019-01-05 21:38 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-05 21:51 ` Rob Pike
2019-01-05 21:53 ` Rob Pike
2019-01-05 21:52 ` Larry McVoy
2019-01-06 1:50 ` Chris Hanson
2019-01-06 2:18 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-01-05 17:07 ` Donald ODona
2019-01-05 21:20 ` joe mcguckin
2019-01-06 1:43 ` Chris Hanson
2019-01-06 2:40 ` [TUHS] Emacs (was: Isaacson v Unix) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2019-01-06 6:01 ` Donald ODona
2019-01-06 6:03 ` Larry McVoy
2019-01-06 6:26 ` Chris Hanson [this message]
2019-01-06 7:50 ` [TUHS] Emacs Lars Brinkhoff
2019-01-06 14:23 ` Andrew Luke Nesbit
2019-01-06 14:30 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-01-05 9:08 ` [TUHS] Isaacson v Unix William Corcoran
2019-01-05 12:09 ` Ed Carp
2019-01-05 14:15 ` Paul Winalski
2019-01-05 15:01 ` Ed Carp
2019-01-06 4:35 ` Bakul Shah
2019-01-06 4:52 ` Bakul Shah
2019-01-06 5:00 ` Toby Thain
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