[TUHS] Emacs (was: Isaacson v Unix)

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Saturday,  5 January 2019 at 17:43:43 -0800, Chris Hanson wrote:
> 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.

I don't think there's any serious doubt that rms wrote the original
Emacs, in TECO.  If I understand it correctly, though, he took
significant improvements, including screen redisplay, from Gosling
Emacs.

Greg
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