On Saturday, 5 January 2019 at 17:43:43 -0800, Chris Hanson wrote: > On Jan 5, 2019, at 7:31 AM, Larry McVoy 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. If I understand it correctly, though, he took significant improvements, including screen redisplay, from Gosling Emacs. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA