Re: EMACS, 1976

[Mark Skilbeck]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 06:36:58AM -0400, Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <mailman.5547.1343209085.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
>  Mark Skilbeck <m@iammark.us> wrote:
> 
> > Hello, fellow Emacsen (Emacsians?).
> > 
> > I've been reading RMS's essay, EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable
> > Display Editor[0], and it's piqued an interest in me; I would like to
> > view the code that made up the first EMACS release in 1976. Have it
> > any of you lads and lasses, or know where it I may find?
> 
> I googled for "teco emacs" and found this:
> 
> http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/mit_emacs_170_teco_1220/index.html
> 
> Good luck understanding TECO.
> 

I can quite comfortably say I do *not* envy Stallman's having to write
that.

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- mgs.

if all you young men / were fish in the water 
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