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From: aej@wpi.wpi.edu (Allan E Johannesen)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: MIT Teco manual sought
Message-ID: <6427@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 29 Dec 89 14:15:30 GMT
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Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass.
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In-reply-to: terry@sunquest.UUCP's message of 28 Dec 89 18:09:33 GMT

>>>>> On 28 Dec 89 18:09:33 GMT, terry@sunquest.UUCP (Terry Friedrichsen) said:

terry> In article <4331@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi>, tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes:
> (wasn't
> the PDP-10 TECO written in something called MIDAS?)

terry> Nope.  Got a listing right here in front of me; good old DEC-10 assembler
terry> (MACRO-10).  Of course, this is version 23 or so.  Now maybe the ORIGINAL
terry> version was done in something other than MACRO-10.  But we're off the
terry> comp.emacs track here ...

emacs was originally written in MIT TECO under ITS (the incompatible
timesharing system) running on KA-10's with VM hacked into the
hardware by MIT.  MIT TECO was written in MIDAS, an MIT assembler for
the PDP-10.  rms was supporting MIT TECO at the time ('72? '73?).

I use MIT TECO to differentiate it from the Digital product, TECO,
written in DEC's assembler, MACRO.  DEC TECO had no chance of giving
birth to emacs.