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From: markad@blake.acs.washington.edu (Mark Donnell)
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Subject: Re: Emacs For The IBM PC
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Date: 11 Jul 90 18:01:23 GMT
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In article <646@cvbnetPrime.COM> jsulliva@cvbnet.prime.com (mailhost) writes:
>...
>There are a number of Emacs clones for the PC available.  Freemacs
>has three distinguishing characteristics:
>...
>o Freemacs is the only IBM-PC editor that tries to be like GNU Emacs.
>...

As I understand it, 'MG' is another small model Gnu Emacs clone.
It is compileable on Unix boxes and Dos boxes and is a hack of another
Emacs clone to make it as much like Gnu as possible. Some of the'
people on our Suns actually prefer it to Gnu for quick editing because
it is so fast to come up.

I think the orig name was MicroGnu, but it was changed at the request of
the folks who make Gnu.

Note I haven't tried it, because I don't have the C compiler at home to make
it.

Mark