20 Jul
2025
20 Jul
'25
6:43 p.m.
On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM Lars Brinkhoff <lars(a)nocrew.org> wrote:
EMACS ran on ITS, TOPS-20, and TENEX, but not TOPS-10. TOPS-10 had
Emacs-likes FINE and AMIS.
Thanks -- you're right. FINE was what we had on the PDP-10s, not pure
EMACS, which we did not get until we started running TOPS-20. As I said,
i used it for such a short time and never really mastered it but the time I
switched to UNIX. Which set me on a path to ex/vi and by the time Gosling
EMACS was available, I had never went back as ex/vi was getting the job
done and ran on both PDP-11s and Vaxen. It was just not worth re-learning
it as vi was by the, everywhere from MS-DOS to the Cray 1 and EMACS wasn't.