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Article #632Re: FSF featured in "The Guardian"
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1989 20:35
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1989 20:35
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In article <48453@bbn.COM> cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>zmacx07@doc.ic.ac.uk (Simon E Spero) writes:
>> Stallman ...
>>... developed the influential Emacs (Editing Macros) word
>>processing system, which is available on a wide range of computers.
>Who is spreading this bit of misinformation around? Has rms said it enough
>that HE believes it? Do other over-enthusiastic FSF'ers perpetuate it? Some
>ethics and standards... taking credit for other peoples work without a MENTION
>of them.
What's wrong with the statement? When I was at MIT, we all considered RMS
the creator of the original PDP-10 EMACS. While he didn't write all the
macros himself, he is the one who implemented much of the underlying TECO
support for interactive display-oriented editing ("^R mode"), and he did
bring the macro packages together into the cohesive whole that is what we
now know as EMACS. Prior to Stallman's efforts, there were a number of
competing, less complete macro packages.
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com
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