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2021-04-15 The Birth of Emacs, with Lars Brinkhoff

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Lars Brinkhoff presents the early history of Emacs, starting with TECO in 1967 and showing live demos on emulated PDP-10 systems.

Lars takes us through the early history of Emacs, starting in 1967 with TECO and ending with the explosion of Emacs variants in the late 1970s, with live demos. Host: Mike Wright ITS source code: github.com/pdp-10/its (requires a PDP-10 emulator) Also see #pdp-10 channel on libera.chat Free accounts on an emulated TOPS-20 machine: twenex.org/ For a portable C version of TECO, try github.com/blakemcbride/TECOC TECO Emacs for TOPS-20 pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/mit_emacs_170_teco_1220/index.html

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2021-04-15 The Birth of Emacs, with Lars Brinkhoff