[TUHS] Isaacson v Unix

Chris Hanson cmhanson at eschatologist.net
Sun Jan 6 11:43:43 AEST 2019


On Jan 5, 2019, at 7:31 AM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> +1.  RMS always talked big but the real work was done by other people.
> GCC was Tiemann at Sun and then at Cygnus, groff was James Clark,
> etc.  I think RMS hacked on emacs but not much else.

Which I thought was originally derived from Unipress emacs (Gosmacs), and was why old source code used to be hard to find.

  — Chris




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