From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 20:14:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 20:14:02 -0400 Received: from durham-24-086.biz.dsl.gtei.net ([4.3.24.86]:62849 "HELO amanda.mallet-assembly.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 20:13:50 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix. In-Reply-To: <01062310075401.00696@localhost.localdomain> From: Michael Alan Dorman Date: 23 Jun 2001 20:13:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <01062310075401.00696@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <877ky2ohuu.fsf@amanda.mallet-assembly.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rob Landley writes: > That would be the X version of emacs. And there's the explanation > for the split between GNU and X emacs: it got forked and the > closed-source version had a vew years of divergent development > before opening back up, by which point it was very different to > reconcile the two code bases. No, sorry, wrong, for at least a couple of reasons reasons: 1) XEmacs, being constrained to be under the same license (GPL) as its progenitor, GNU Emacs, could never have been closed-source. 2) Lucid Emacs, the version of Emacs that becamse XEmacs, was not started until ca. 1992 I refer you to http://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html for documentation---JWZ was Mr. Lucid Emacs for quite a time. In 1987, there are any number of things that it could have been---I'd guess either Unipress Emacs or perhaps Gosling Emacs. Mike.