From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of m6?
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:21:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201911131921.xADJLirZ765029@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7w4kz7k2i1.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>
Lars Brinkhoff writes:
> Paul Winalski wrote:
> >> The first Emacs was written in TECO.
> > Which is how it got its name, of course. Emacs = "Editor MACroS".
>
> So the story goes. But I'm not sure sure. In November 1976, the name
> went from ? and ?MACS to E and EMACS. Maybe "editor" was implied, but
> it doesn't come up in the email conversation.
For what it's worth, I have some vague memory of attending a lunchtime
presentation at BTL in maybe the summer of 72 or 73 on EMACS as TECO
editor macros.
Jon
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-11 21:10 Arnold Robbins
2019-11-11 22:18 ` Dennis Boone
2019-11-12 16:01 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-11-11 22:31 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-11-11 22:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-12 0:07 ` Nemo Nusquam
2019-11-12 0:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-12 0:30 ` Clem cole
2019-11-16 16:27 ` SPC
2019-11-17 5:30 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-17 5:50 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-17 18:12 ` Bakul Shah
2019-11-17 18:23 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-11-17 18:56 ` Bakul Shah
2019-11-17 22:46 ` Barry Stanly
2019-11-12 0:42 ` Dennis Boone
2019-11-11 22:37 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-11-12 1:09 ` Steve Johnson
2019-11-12 15:07 ` Clem Cole
2019-11-13 9:16 ` Thomas Paulsen
2019-11-13 12:20 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-11-13 12:50 ` Mike Markowski
2019-11-13 13:02 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-11-13 16:56 ` Paul Winalski
2019-11-13 19:19 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-11-13 19:21 ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
2019-11-14 9:26 ` Thomas Paulsen
2019-11-14 10:53 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-11-13 21:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-13 22:53 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2019-11-12 15:15 Doug McIlroy
2019-11-13 7:38 ` arnold
2019-11-13 10:55 ` David Arnold
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