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From: Pat Barron <patbarron@acm.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Montgomery's emacs
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 09:59:49 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1906110951030.15401@booboo.lectroid.com> (raw)

I'm reminded since Erik brought this up...

Is Warren Montgomery's emacs available, like, anywhere...  I used it long 
ago on V7m, and I had it on my AT&T 7300 (where it was available as a 
binary package).

It's the first emacs I ever used.  I don't recall where we got it for the 
PDP-11.  On our system, we had it permission-restricted so only certain 
trusted users could use it - basically, people who could be trusted not to 
be in it all the time, and not to use it while the system was busy.  We 
had an 11/40 with 128K, and 2 or 3 people trying to use Mongomery emacs 
would basically crush the system...

In the absence of that, I've always found JOVE to be the next best thing, 
as far as being lightweight and sufficently emacs-like.  I actually 
install it on almost all of my Linux systems.  Did JOVE ever run on V7?

--Pat.

             reply	other threads:[~2019-06-11 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-11 13:59 Pat Barron [this message]
2019-06-11 15:02 ` [TUHS] Old Emacs Lawrence Stewart
2019-06-11 15:15   ` Clem Cole
2019-06-11 17:08     ` Rodolfo García Peñas (kix)
2019-06-11 15:52   ` Christopher Browne
2019-06-11 17:23   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-06-11 17:53     ` Lawrence Stewart
2019-06-11 15:22 [TUHS] Montgomery's emacs Noel Chiappa
2019-06-11 15:55 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-06-11 17:28 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-06-11 17:02 Noel Chiappa
2019-06-11 17:12 ` Clem Cole
2019-06-11 17:28   ` Brad Spencer
2019-06-11 17:55   ` Clem Cole

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