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Re: EMACS Version 162.43z ?
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Daniel Jensen |
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Re: EMACS Version 162.43z ? |
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Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:34:04 +0200 |
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Peter Tury <tury.peter@gmail.com> writes:
> I have access to an ancient VMS through terminal. It has Emacs and I
> can use it. :-))) It's version is (got for M-x version) "EMACS Version
> 162.43z". What does this mean compared to v21.4, v22, v23, ... what we
> have nowadays? Do you know its release year? How can I figure it out?
> I googled for it and saw somewhere 1984. Is this realistic? Is it
> possible somehow to get e.g. a news file for it (or for its (near)
> successor)?
The version number points to CCA Emacs, a proprietary emacs
implementation. The year 1984 is probably correct, but I'm only guessing
from Google results like you did. There is a document explaining some
differences between GNU Emacs and CCA Emacs at
<http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/contrib/epoch/epoch-4.2/etc/CCADIFF>,
dated 1985.