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The Origin of Emacs in 1976
On the Origin of Emacs in 1976 (Emacs blog articles)
I quote some sections and include the verbatim text at the bottom, which starts with an ITS email from RMS to GLS. The question of Steele’s role in the creation and development of EMACS appears to be an old issue that continues to rear its head, although Stallman addressed this as far back as 1987 in his article “Emacs the Full Screen Editor” [8] and just this year in the comp.lang.lisp thread “teco, rms, gosling, mocklisp” on 28 July: [2, viper-2] With regard to your assertions that Guy L. Steele Jr. and David Moon were the authors of the original TECO-based Emacs, Stallman has requested that I inform you that your claim is false.
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