11 Jun
2019
11 Jun
'19
11:26 p.m.
Interesting and that sounds quite plausible. CCA sold it at one point.
Masscomp (because Steve was working for us) got a license and a
redistribution license. IIRC: we could redistribute the binary for free
as long as CCA got Steve's changes back.
Steve definitely did the terminfo/lib work for CCA Emacs at Masscomp, as I
had pointed out that AT&T was moving to terminfo but was locking it up
inside of the System V (AT&T 'consider it standard' stuff - much to a
number of their own people telling them not too). Pavel ?? Curtis I think
?? - I've forgotten his last name - had written a new uncontaminated
version at Cornell that was a functional replacement and that could read
the AT&T ASCII database and compile them properly. (I don't remember if
Pavel's version could take the AT&T binary versions). I had obtained
Pavel's version and we were shipping that as our terminfo/lib
implementation on the Masscomp boxes and were switching our code to use it,
as we had not yet signed a System V license and were shipping on a System
III based one. Steve started to include Pavel's library in the CCA
version, which he got from me.
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 1:12 PM Lars Brinkhoff <lars(a)nocrew.org> wrote:
Clem Cole wrote:
1.) Zimmerman EMACS (a.k.a. CCA EMACS) ran on the
PDP-11 originally
when Steve wrote it at MIT.
I have this on the origin of Montgomery and Zimmerman Emacs:
"[Montgomery's] emacs implementation was begun in 1979, after having
left MIT. I made it freely available to people INSIDE of Bell Labs,
and it was widely used. It was never officially "released" from Bell
Labs."
"Unfortunately, several copies did get out during that time, mainly
due to people who left Bell Labs to return to school or gave copies to
friends. When Zimmerman modified one of those copies as the original
basis for CCA emacs, AT&T and CCA had a prolonged debate over it.
Eventually the matter was resolved when Zimmerman replaced the last of
my code"
https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history/blob/sources/Usenet/net.emac…