[TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years?

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sun Feb 26 09:23:01 AEST 2017


On Sat, 25 Feb 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:

> Back in the days of 4MB SPARC machines (and 68K machines) we joked that 
> EMACS stood for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping.  David Rosenthal, a 
> Sun DE, was known for running emacs on the bitmapped console in terminal 
> mode so as to not let X11 or NeWS eat up ram.

Another acronym is Esc Meta Alt Ctl Shift...

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