From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: aap@papnet.eu (Angelo Papenhoff) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 16:25:45 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years? In-Reply-To: <58b2ec12.PWETi07hYb+bxrO0%schily@schily.net> References: <20170226123956.DBD3C18C088@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <58b2ec12.PWETi07hYb+bxrO0%schily@schily.net> Message-ID: <20170226152545.GA24045@indra.papnet.eu> Whoops, replied off list too accidentally, sorry Jörg. On 26/02/17, Joerg Schilling wrote: > But the GNU EMACS is not a RMS invention... > > GNU EMACS is based on the Gosling EMACS and this did already include the LISP > interpreter. > > When Gosling started to work for Sun, he did no longer have the time to > maintain it and did hand it over to Unipress. RMS did take this code, added a > few small changed and sold it under the name GNU emacs. As far as I know the original LISP implementation in Gosling EMACS had to be completely rewritten. I just don't remember where I've read this. aap