From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 6fb9f574 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2019 02:50:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id D164FA204F; Sun, 6 Jan 2019 12:50:44 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B710CA1C5C; Sun, 6 Jan 2019 12:50:16 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 932EAA1C5C; Sun, 6 Jan 2019 12:50:14 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 556 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 12:50:13 AEST Received: from www.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [208.86.226.86]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFBD9A1C50 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2019 12:50:13 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (lemis.com [192.109.197.81]) by www.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00AD91B72849; Sun, 6 Jan 2019 02:40:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 82FA64494B5; Sun, 6 Jan 2019 13:40:54 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 13:40:54 +1100 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Chris Hanson Message-ID: <20190106024054.GA27103@eureka.lemis.com> References: <201901050226.x052QigU089781@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> <22BA2F17-310F-4396-A35A-23E2D1130018@ronnatalie.com> <20190105153133.GA24497@mcvoy.com> <857E28A8-A1A7-48DD-A60D-05FADD93C6C5@eschatologist.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <857E28A8-A1A7-48DD-A60D-05FADD93C6C5@eschatologist.net> Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Emacs (was: Isaacson v Unix) X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEUEARECAAYFAlwxarYACgkQIubykFB6QiPxBwCdEKPikArzOsUKLaPExAN5PfY3 fPgAmLAiYUmN6C56o+FPbUh0rJlw5EI= =ssAf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--