4 Nov
2022
4 Nov
'22
4:18 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 2:43 AM Lars Brinkhoff <lars(a)nocrew.org> wrote:
Clem Cole wrote:
Out of curiosity, did they say why? It's hard to imagine it holds much
commercial value now. Was it some kind of IP ownership thing?
- Dan C.
probably the next was Zimmerman (a.k.a. CCA)
EMACS, then GNU hacked
Gosling's version (that strange trip has been discussed elsewhere and
I'll not add it here). Zimmer's version was 'truer' to the original
MIT/PDP-10 version from ITS than Gosling but Steve had built it when
he worked for CCA so it was licensed (which we had a Masscomp and made
available to our customers).
I recently found a copy of CCA Emacs. It's from 1983 and does not yet
have the Elisp extension language. CCA was bought by Rocket Software,
so they own it now. I asked permission to put it online, but
unfortunately they said no.