Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!bu-cs!tower From: tower@bu-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: rec.games.hack,net.sources.games Subject: Re: Proposal: Hack release 1.0.4 Message-ID: <6084@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 14:02:47 EST Article-I.D.: bu-cs.6084 Posted: Fri Apr 3 14:02:47 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Apr-87 03:14:32 EST References: <70@genat.UUCP> <2444@psuvax1.UUCP> <789@watcgl.UUCP> <879@mhres.UUCP> Reply-To: tower@prep.ai.mit.edu Followup-To: rec.games.hack Organization: Distributed Systems Group, Boston University, 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA +1 (617) 353-2780 Lines: 37 Xref: utgpu rec.games.hack:367 net.sources.games:1068 Summary: Jay Fenlason was the original hack author, Andries Brouwer elaborated considerably on Jay's work. Home: 36 Porter Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 In article <879@mhres.UUCP> vns@mhres.UUCP (Gertjan Vinkesteyn) writes: > In article <789@watcgl.UUCP>, kdmoen@watcgl.UUCP writes: > > Jay Fenlason, the original author of Hack, is working full time for > > project GNU, and the Free Software Foundation is distributing Hack. > > > > > Honor who earns it. I thought Andries Brouwer is the author (mcvax!aeb) > > -- > Real-Name: Gertjan Vinkesteyn, back in Holland > UUCP and other network )\/( in America: ..!seismo!mcvax!mhres!vns > connections via mcvax )/\( in Europe: ..!mcvax!mhres!vns Jay created hack, with the assistance of several fellow students, when he was a student at the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School here in Massachusetts. The ersatz Emacs named jove was done at the same time in the same place by Jonathan Payne. Andries built on those sources to create the version of hack widely distributed on USENET. See the end of the manual page hack.6 in Andries distribution (at least in version 1.0.2). I believe that Project GNU distributes one of Andries versions, but I would have to check to be sure. enjoy -len PS: Jay is reachable as hack@prep.ai.mit.edu. -- Len Tower, Distributed Systems Group, Boston University, 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA +1 (617) 353-2780 Home: 36 Porter Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 UUCP: {}!harvard!bu-cs!tower INTERNET: tower@bu-cs.bu.edu