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Article #4580Source code quotes - Gosling's emacs
From: j... John Peterson
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 1990 18:33
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 1990 18:33
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Ah yes. Source comments are sort of the graffiti of the information age. Speaking of source code quotes, does anybody still have a copy of the Skull and Crossbones "picture" that adorned the header for the display driver of Gosling's emacs? The code implemented a very intricate algorithm for changing the minimum number of characters on a serial line terminal. (Gosling's emacs was the original Unix emacs. Stallman picked it up and made Gnu Emacs. Unipress picked it up and made money...) Cheers, jp
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