dapermezel (05/13/82)
I was able to contact James Gosling at `...!ucbvax!Gosling@CMU-10A'.
He informed me that emacs was available (for educational use only)
in return for a stamped, self addressed tape, and the promise not to
distribute it. He is considering charging for it in the future. His
address is
J. Gosling
Department of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburg
P. A.
15213
Thanx again to all those who responded with info.
Damon.z (05/14/82)
I have discovered from my response to the original request for info on EMACS that many people are unaware that I also have an EMACS which runs on VAXes. So, here is the information once again: My EMACS differs from Gosling's in that is much more of a clone of ITS/TOPS-20 EMACS, to the point that much of the documentation is identical. It has also implemented the vast majority of commands available in TOPS-20 EMACS, which is several times as many as are available in Gosling's. Some of the major features it has that Gosling's doesn't are a tutorial, a full help facility, complete Lisp and C modes, a complete set of sentence and paragraph commands, crash recovery, named kill buffers (Q-registers), an undo command virtually identical to vi's, commands to kill and copy rectangular areas, and a mode designed for drawing pictures. Its major drawback compared to Gosling's is that although it has keyboard macros, it doesn't yet have a Lisp-like extension language, though this is being worked on. My EMACS has been aimed at a broader audience than Gosling's, and reactions to its user interface have been far more favorable. Here at CCA, 89% of our vi users and 50% of our Rand editor users have switched to EMACS since it was introduced a year ago, and all new users since that time, from secretaries to programmers to managers, have learned EMACS as their editor. If you have access to the Arpanet and would like EMACS, you can simply FTP to CCA, login as "anonymous" with any password, and copy the entire contents of the subdirectories emacs/src and emacs/lib. Otherwise, you can mail me a tape along with a self-addressed, STAMPED mailing envelope, and I'll mail you back a tar tape of EMACS. My address is: Steven Zimmerman Computer Corporation of America 575 Technology Square Cambridge, Mass. 02139