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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: vi in cooked mode?
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2022 06:43:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wv8nv1apu.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2MMLxOBiyeV_vP_ND5GnmcTG1f5TRrStoK=0eoWyMPmyA@mail.gmail.com> (Clem Cole's message of "Thu, 3 Nov 2022 17:34:59 -0400")

Clem Cole wrote:
> probably the next was Zimmerman (a.k.a. CCA) EMACS, then GNU hacked
> Gosling's version (that strange trip has been discussed elsewhere and
> I'll not add it here).  Zimmer's version was 'truer' to the original
> MIT/PDP-10 version from ITS than Gosling but Steve had built it when
> he worked for CCA so it was licensed (which we had a Masscomp and made
> available to our customers).

I recently found a copy of CCA Emacs.  It's from 1983 and does not yet
have the Elisp extension language.  CCA was bought by Rocket Software,
so they own it now.  I asked permission to put it online, but
unfortunately they said no.


Ron Natalie wrote:
> We used Montgomery’s EMACS and then JOVE on the PDP-11 UNIXes.

Montgomery kindly agreed to putting a copy of his editor here, and wrote
about its history:

https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history/tree/sources/ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/%7Ejnc/tech/unix/emacs
https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history/blob/sources/docs/Montgomery%20Emacs%20History.txt

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-04  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-03 19:43 [TUHS] " Diomidis Spinellis
2022-11-03 20:26 ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2022-11-03 20:27   ` Clem Cole
2022-11-03 20:55   ` Warner Losh
2022-11-03 21:34     ` Clem Cole
2022-11-03 22:28       ` Warner Losh
2022-11-03 22:52         ` Ron Natalie
2022-11-04  6:43       ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2022-11-04 15:18         ` Dan Cross
2022-11-04 17:54           ` Lars Brinkhoff
2022-11-04 18:33   ` Ron Natalie
2022-11-04 23:42     ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-11-05  0:45       ` Dave Horsfall
2022-11-05  1:02         ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-05  1:25           ` Bakul Shah
2022-11-05  1:40             ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-05  2:31               ` Rich Salz
2022-11-05  3:44                 ` Bakul Shah
2022-11-05 18:34               ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-11-05  9:29           ` Otto Moerbeek via TUHS
2022-11-04 22:13 ` Mary Ann Horton
2022-11-03 20:17 Noel Chiappa

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