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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: Emacs Info Wanted
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Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 13:29:55 EDT
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> 	We are currently running a version Montgomery 3.4 emacs
> on a 80186-based unix supermicro; we have a small model compiler
> and 64K split addressing (64K for data and 64K for program). 
> 	1) Does anyone have bug fixes, updates, or general info on this 
> version of emacs ?

This EMACS came from Bell Labs.  It was freely available around the net
at one point and was the foundation for early versions of Zimmermans
(now CCA) EMACS.  All of a sudden, Bell really tightened up and decided
that this code was not in the public domain or available.  However, recently
the source has become available through the UNIX Toolchest for moderate
fee.

> 	2) Are there any other versions of emacs available in the
> public domain that we can run (subject to the addressing limitations/
> features :-) stated above) ? How can we get more information on those  ?

When Montgomery's EMACS got absorbed in controversy we switched to JOVE
(Jonathon's Own Version of EMACS) which appeared first on one of the
USENIX distribution tapes.  The author is Jonathon Payne then of Lincoln-
Sudbury Regional High School but now working for BBN I think.  If it's
not in the public domain, it is relatively easy to get a copy for free.
WARNING:  someone was giving out an IBM-PC version which is not very good.
  If you want to port JOVE to something other than a IBM-PC, I suggest you
  don't start with these sources.
I ported JOVE to an INTEL 310 (80286) using medium model.

GNU is the other public domain emacs.  It's very large and rather tied
to 4 BSD right now, but people are porting it to things like VMS.

-Ron