[TUHS] Emacs

[Lars Brinkhoff]

Andrew Luke Nesbit wrote:
>> I found a copy of GNU Emacs 13.8 which I believe is the first version
>> to be distributed.  It has the Gosling display code.
> Wow!  Where did you find this?  Online?

Yes, on a DECUS tape with VMS software.  I'm not sure it runs on VMS,
though.

This link sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.  But I have it mirrored.

http://decuslib.com/decus/vax85b/gnuemax/emacs/

> What OS does it run on - ITS?  Is it available for something like Unix?

I haven't tried to compile it, but my guess would be 4.2 ish BSD.
Whatever BSD was contemporary around 1985 I suppose.

I did try 16.56 on 4.1BSD, but it wasn't an immediate success.  Some
things seemed to be missing from BSD.

4.3BSD came with a copy of GNU Emacs 17.61.