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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2018-07-01 08:25:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2018-07-01 08:25:46 -0700 |
| commit | f205928d1f93f4373d755ca91805a88e022ac414 (patch) | |
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* etc/HISTORY: Cite Brinkoff on early history.
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diff --git a/etc/HISTORY b/etc/HISTORY index ba86182a1c3..b239904253b 100644 --- a/etc/HISTORY +++ b/etc/HISTORY @@ -12,10 +12,11 @@ development is sketchy, the following text summarizes what is known. EMACS started out as a set of macros atop the TECO text editor, and was first operational in late 1976. It was inspired by earlier work such as the E editor of Stanford, and was based on older TECO macro -sets. EMACS in turn inspired several similar editors. See: -Stallman RM. EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable Self-Documenting -Display Editor. AI Memo 519a, MIT, 1981-03-26 +sets. See: Stallman RM. EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable +Self-Documenting Display Editor. AI Memo 519a, MIT, 1981-03-26 <http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5736/AIM-519A.pdf>. +EMACS in turn inspired several similar editors. For a summary of +this history, see <https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history>. In 1984, work began on GNU Emacs, a fresh implementation designed to run on GNU and GNU-like systems, with a full-featured Lisp at its |