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From: ron@brl-smoke.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: Emacs
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Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 13:38:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  6 13:38:41 1986
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> I don't know the status of "EMACS" per say.  Do know that is was
> originally a front end for TECO on DEC equipment.  EMACS == Editor,
> Macroes... or some such.  The relation to TECO is similar to the
> relation between vi(1) and ed(1) on UN*X systems.

First off, DEC didn't write or support either EMACS or TECO.  TECO
came from the user's group and EMACS was written by RMS.

-Ron