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* Re: [TUHS] Montgomery's emacs
@ 2019-06-11 17:02 Noel Chiappa
  2019-06-11 17:12 ` Clem Cole
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Noel Chiappa @ 2019-06-11 17:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs; +Cc: jnc

    > From: Mary Ann Horton

    > Warren's emacs would have been part of the Bell Labs 'exptools'
    > (experimental tools) package ... it's possible that's what you have.

I don't think so; Warren had been a grad student in our group, and we got it
on that basis. I'm pretty sure we didn't have termcap or any of that stuff.

   Noel

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* Re: [TUHS] Montgomery's emacs
@ 2019-06-11 15:22 Noel Chiappa
  2019-06-11 15:55 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
  2019-06-11 17:28 ` Lars Brinkhoff
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Noel Chiappa @ 2019-06-11 15:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs; +Cc: jnc

    > From: Pat Barron

    > Is Warren Montgomery's emacs available, like, anywhere...

I've got a copy on the dump of the MIT PWB system. I'm actually supposed to
resurrect it for someone, IIRC, (the MIT system was .. idiosyncratic, so it'll
take a bit of tweaking), but haven't gotten to it yet.

Does anyone else have the source, or is mine the only one left?

     Noel

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* [TUHS] Montgomery's emacs
@ 2019-06-11 13:59 Pat Barron
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Pat Barron @ 2019-06-11 13:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

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.

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