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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Standard Emacs
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Date: Sat, 5-Sep-87 11:32:42 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  5 11:32:42 1987
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In article <1269@mhres.mh.nl> jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
>Because I consider GNU Emacs to be the most original Emacs (all Emacs
>documentation mention Richard Stallman to be the "inventor")

While Stallman is the inventor of EMACS, GNU EMACS is one of the
youngest EMACS implementations around.  He invented EMACS about ten
years ago for the PDP-10's at MIT (running an MIT homebrew operating
system called ITS).  There are many differences, including changed key
bindings, between PDP-10 EMACS and GNU EMACS.  For example, PDP-10
EMACS doesn't have any of the C-C-prefixed key-bindings.  I think
Stallman got many of GNU EMACS's key bindings from Gosling (Unipress)
EMACS, presumably because it was so common in the Unix community.  (On
the other hand, Zimmerman, who wrote CCA EMACS, strove to maintain
compatibility with PDP-10 EMACS.)


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Barry Margolin
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