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Source code quotes - Gosling's emacs

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From: j... John Peterson
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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