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Article #8246Re: GNU Elisp -- Summary
From: John Wilkes
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1989 19:47
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1989 19:47
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[GNU emacs and Gosling emacs...]
I heard somewhere that RMS started out with Gosling's PD emacs. Later,
when Gosling's version became a commercial product, all of the Goscode was
exorcised from the GNU version. This is probably an urban myth.
-wilkes
"There is no Editor but EMACS, and TECO is its Prophet."
"I don't care what they say, 36 bits is here to stay."
"It's a new feature? Gee, TOPS-20 did that 10 years ago."
"etc., etc., etc."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!vsi1!wyse!mips!wilkes From: wilkes@mips.COM (John Wilkes) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: GNU Elisp -- Summary Message-ID: <10788@electron.mips.COM> Date: 6 Jan 89 19:47:04 GMT References: <2211@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <66721@ti-csl.CSNET> <Jan.5.18.29.33.1989.160@ron.rutgers.edu> <10782@wright.mips.COM> Reply-To: wilkes@mips.COM (John Wilkes) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 15