From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: emacs
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 10:39:43 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230804003943.GD64035@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP2nic2a=FDB933Lb5bio=6DxEJSrDsbfVo5-KAOjXLU+dzS9A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday, 3 August 2023 at 17:19:10 -0700, Adam Thornton wrote:
>
> The first Emacs I used was GNU emacs at already version...16 or something?
> In 1989,
Coincidentally that's when I first used GNU Emacs on a Unix-like
system (SCO Xenix, also coincidentally in Austin). The version was
18.51.
But as Warner says, there were plenty of Emacs-lookalikes on other
platforms, notably MINCE (MINCE Is Not Complete Emacs) on the Z-80,
which I used from 1980, and others, including the micro Emacs that
Warner used.
The Emacs lineage (TECO → GNU Emacs) isn't as straight as it might
appear. There was also a Gosling Emacs in the interim time, and I
gather that rms used some of the concepts (screen refresh?) for GNU
Emacs. Also I recall that the version numbering was a little
defective, something like skipping a number of major version numbers
because it seemed that enough time had passed. But I'm hazy on the
details, and maybe somebody else can fill in.
Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-04 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-04 0:04 [TUHS] emacs Will Senn
2023-08-04 0:19 ` [TUHS] emacs Adam Thornton
2023-08-04 0:27 ` Rob Pike
2023-08-04 0:49 ` Larry McVoy
2023-08-04 1:00 ` Rich Salz
2023-08-04 13:25 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-08-04 0:32 ` Warner Losh
2023-08-04 1:23 ` Larry Stewart
2023-08-04 13:38 ` Ronald Natalie
2023-08-04 1:59 ` Will Senn
2023-08-04 2:26 ` Erik E. Fair
2023-08-04 0:39 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2023-08-04 0:44 ` Clem Cole
2023-08-04 0:47 ` Clem Cole
2023-08-04 0:53 ` Warner Losh
2023-08-04 2:14 ` Dan Halbert
2023-08-04 2:18 ` Bakul Shah
2023-08-04 2:17 Noel Chiappa
2023-08-04 5:03 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-08-05 4:34 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-08-04 2:36 Noel Chiappa
2023-08-04 2:42 ` Rob Pike
2023-08-04 16:19 ` Clem Cole
2023-08-05 4:09 ` George Michaelson
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