From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: downing.nick@gmail.com (Nick Downing) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:51:21 +1100 Subject: [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years? In-Reply-To: References: <20170226123956.DBD3C18C088@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <58b2ec12.PWETi07hYb+bxrO0%schily@schily.net> <13D1D81F-F878-4D23-922A-279AADF29CFE@tfeb.org> <58b2f9c8.N21HJWDG1ABXGZ/w%schily@schily.net> <008701d2904d$29d56c60$7d804520$@ronnatalie.com> <86d1e4reep.fsf@molnjunk.nocrew.org> Message-ID: Really fascinating reading (the emacs history essay). I had more or less gone through a similar thought process in my own editor experiments, such as a failed attempt to provide full screen editing for email in TheMajorBBS, it's a difficult and fascinating problem and the dicussion of FNP char-at-a-time patches is quite revealing in regards to the limitations (both physical and idealogical) that prevailed with early mainframes. cheers, Nick On Feb 28, 2017 3:05 AM, "Tony Finch" wrote: > Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > > > > RMS credits Multics Emacs with the idea to use Lisp as the extension > > language: [snip] https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html > > There's a nice history / retrospective of Multics Emacs at > http://www.multicians.org/mepap.html > > Tony. > -- > f.anthony.n.finch http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h > punycode > Dogger, Fisher: South becoming cyclonic 5 to 7, occasionally gale 8 later. > Moderate or rough, occasionally very rough later. Rain or showers. > Moderate or > good. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: