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From: jch@dyfed.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby)
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Subject: Re: Emacs......meaning???
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.170338.2114@hollie.rdg.dec.com>
Date: 13 Feb 91 17:03:38 GMT
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em comes from an old V6 enhancement done by 
one of the London colleges--Imperial perhaps?
As far as I recall, the major enhancement was the
addition of a prompt :-) Some of the ideas of em
were taken up by Nottingham University in V7 (including
the prompt) and a screen mode added--the name 'ed'
stuck. From that ed, came 'exed', written by me, which
added large file support (albeit slow), horizontal scrolling
and macros.
-- 
John Haxby, Definitively Wrong.
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