I'm looking for old versions of GNU Emacs source code. Really old versions.
In 1993 I recovered a copy of the Emacs 16.56 sources from backup tapes at MIT because rms needed it in a court case with Unisys. I put it back up for ftp a couple of years later and it's relatively easy to find these days.
But I can't find anything older than that, and I can't seem to locate any copies of Emacs 17.x. I would very much like to have anything at all anyone has squirrelled away all these years, even if they are just patch sets between releases.
There are many different implementations of Emacs, including the original based on Teco. What I'm especially interested in though is the version derived from Gosling Emacs and then modified, and eventually completely rewritten, by rms. (No, rms doesn't have them anymore either.)
Please contact me if you have anything from that era.
In 1993 I recovered a copy of the Emacs 16.56 sources from backup tapes at MIT because rms needed it in a court case with Unisys. I put it back up for ftp a couple of years later and it's relatively easy to find these days.
But I can't find anything older than that, and I can't seem to locate any copies of Emacs 17.x. I would very much like to have anything at all anyone has squirrelled away all these years, even if they are just patch sets between releases.
There are many different implementations of Emacs, including the original based on Teco. What I'm especially interested in though is the version derived from Gosling Emacs and then modified, and eventually completely rewritten, by rms. (No, rms doesn't have them anymore either.)
Please contact me if you have anything from that era.
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+Lars Brinkhoff How the heck did you locate that? I have a local copy of the tuhs archive but those sources were buried in a tar file (new.tar) in the 4.3BSD directory, which isn't very obvious is full of contribs. Aside from that, no google search I did ever turned that up, which isn't too surprising since it's only exposed via a CGI.Oct 18, 2016
I don't remember exactly, but I was browsing the directories in the CGI view.Oct 19, 2016
I can hardly believe this. Can you check it out? http://decuslib.com/decus/vax85b/gnuemax/emacs/Oct 19, 2016
+Noah Friedman saw your name, at 00:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrOJhYLR2ycOct 19, 2016
I've been trying to load the decuslib URL but it just hangs. I'll keep trying.
I saw that video a while ago and was trying to figure out which commit that corresponded to. If I figured it out I promptly forgot it again.Oct 20, 2016
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