Messages in this thread |  | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: Microsoft and Xenix. | Date | Sun, 24 Jun 2001 10:18:40 -0400 |
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On Saturday 23 June 2001 20:13, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > Rob Landley <landley@webofficenow.com> writes: > > That would be the X version of emacs. And there's the explanation > > for the split between GNU and X emacs: it got forked and the > > closed-source version had a vew years of divergent development > > before opening back up, by which point it was very different to > > reconcile the two code bases. > > No, sorry, wrong, for at least a couple of reasons reasons:
I've had this pointed out to me by about five people now. Apparently there's more to emacs than I thought... (Considering its kitchen sink icon, this should come as a suprise to no one...)
> I refer you to http://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html for > documentation---JWZ was Mr. Lucid Emacs for quite a time.
Thanks for the link. I've also been pointed to xemacs.org. Have to check out both next time I plug this laptop in to the net. (And I apparently need to set up a mailing list on this, since the number of people asking me to do so has now hit double digits...)
I'll post a thing here when I do that so we can move at least most of this discussion off linux-kernel.
> In 1987, there are any number of things that it could have been---I'd > guess either Unipress Emacs or perhaps Gosling Emacs.
I sort of know about gosling's version. (It's mentioned in Stallman's history of emacs on gnu.org...) Interesting how the same people keep popping up as you move from topic to topic. (Licklidder wasn't just a bigwig behind arpanet, he also kicked off project mac at MIT. Doug McIllroy who was one of the half-dozen figures behind the unix launch at bell labs came to BTL after working on project whirlwind at Lincoln Labs (I.E. MIT.) And of course Ken Olsen, hotshot at whirlwind behind core memory, creator of the memory test computer that (when donated to marvin minsky's computing lab) virtually created the whole "Hacker" phenomenon, whose wrote a paper as a graduate student suggesting the use of transistors in computers which convinced IBM to build the first fully transistorized computer (I -THINK-, timeline still a bit fuzzy there to claim "first", may just have been first commercially shipping one), and then of course went off to found Digital after tx-0...
Hmmm... I should probably corner Alan Cox at some event and ask him about his Amiga days. (And I DID track down Commodore guru Jim Butterfield last year, he was living in Canada at the time. Just got back into computing after years with cataracts obstructing his vision, apparently...)
Rob
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