8 Dec
2016
8 Dec
'16
11:24 p.m.
Rich Alderson wrote:
I'll let someone else do the VMS stuff. DECUSLIB has a copy of GNU
Emacs 15, possibly the very first public release.
Some day, if a free time slot appears, I'd like to try to get the early
Unix Emacsen running in their natural Berkeley habitat. I'd probably
run a VAX emulator for that.
I was hinting a the very real EMACS-11 by Fred Fish. Here's a
net.sources post from 1984, and a tarball from Pete Siemsen:
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=net.sources/qBRfbEjrGV8/3t3…
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/editors/teco/emacs11.tar.Z
Again, I'd love to see this running, but I'm starved for time right now.
(Aren't we all?)
Hey, do you
have any VAXen over there? How about getting an early
Emacs running on those?
We have a VAX-11/780-5 (a 780 field upgraded to a 785) running VMS Or how about
TECO EMACS? Only not on the PDP family you'd expect,
but the 16-bit flavor.
Pete Siemsen wrote a new PDP-11 TECO [...] a couple of us suggested
that he try adding the MIT TECO features to his program, and he said
he'd give it a try.