Re: EMACS, 1976

[Peter Davis]

On 7/25/2012 6:36 AM, Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <mailman.5547.1343209085.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
>   Mark Skilbeck <m@iammark.us> wrote:
>
> > Hello, fellow Emacsen (Emacsians?).
> >
> > I've been reading RMS's essay, EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable
> > Display Editor[0], and it's piqued an interest in me; I would like to
> > view the code that made up the first EMACS release in 1976. Have it
> > any of you lads and lasses, or know where it I may find?
>
> I googled for "teco emacs" and found this:
>
> http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/mit_emacs_170_teco_1220/index.html
>
> Good luck understanding TECO.

I must still have some TECO reference cards around somewhere. I remember 
writing whole applications as TECO macros. Fun.

-pd


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