Noel Chiappa writes: > > Emacs in 1983 would have been Gosling Emacs, I guess. > > Prior to that one, someone else at BBN (whose name I have forgotten, > alas) did an Emacs intended for PDP-11's running Unix. It wasn't > programmable (the way 'real' Emacs is), perhaps because there was not > enough room for that on a PDP-11.
Sounds vaguely like MicroEMACS by Dave Conroy, but I suppose this is something else? Unix V6 you say? Was it BBN PEN by David Barach, David Taenzer, and Robert Wells? > I should have that on my MIT-CSR backup tapes, but if you're > interested in a copy, it will be a while before I can excavate it Yes, I am! I don't think I can take on every single variation of Emacs, but a version this early is interesting.
