From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Is it the 40th Anniversary of Emacs Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 18:01:55 -0400 Message-ID: <20161103180155.0928b9db@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478210559 20611 195.159.176.226 (3 Nov 2016 22:02:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 22:02:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 03 23:02:34 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c2Q5L-0002F0-Rl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 23:02:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35349 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2Q5O-00088C-M2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 18:02:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51867) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2Q5E-00086O-DU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 18:02:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2Q58-0000bt-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 18:02:04 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:42301) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2Q58-0000bV-Jy; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 18:01:58 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2111662C; Thu, 3 Nov 2016 18:01:56 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0EBE2DE01E; Thu, 3 Nov 2016 18:01:55 -0400 (EDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209138 Archived-At: If I'm not mistaken, the first Emacs appeared in late 1976. That would make this approximately the 40th anniversary, which I think is notable. Am I correct on that? Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com