[TUHS] vi in cooked mode?

Dan Cross crossd at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 01:18:15 AEST 2022


On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 2:43 AM Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:
> Clem Cole wrote:
> > probably the next was Zimmerman (a.k.a. CCA) EMACS, then GNU hacked
> > Gosling's version (that strange trip has been discussed elsewhere and
> > I'll not add it here).  Zimmer's version was 'truer' to the original
> > MIT/PDP-10 version from ITS than Gosling but Steve had built it when
> > he worked for CCA so it was licensed (which we had a Masscomp and made
> > available to our customers).
>
> I recently found a copy of CCA Emacs.  It's from 1983 and does not yet
> have the Elisp extension language.  CCA was bought by Rocket Software,
> so they own it now.  I asked permission to put it online, but
> unfortunately they said no.

Out of curiosity, did they say why? It's hard to imagine it holds much
commercial value now. Was it some kind of IP ownership thing?

        - Dan C.


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