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: Re: Is it the 40th Anniversary of Emacs Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 18:46:56 -0400 Message-ID: <20161103184656.5e0fdabc@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <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 1478213288 17535 195.159.176.226 (3 Nov 2016 22:48:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 22:48:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, Emacs developers To: Pierre Lecocq Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 03 23:48:04 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 1c2QnE-0008QY-7V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 23:47:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35488 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2QnH-0003B4-4X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 18:47:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35228) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2Qmh-0003Am-4w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 18:47:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2Qmg-0002pi-AV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 18:46:59 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:42391) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2Qmg-0002pQ-67; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 18:46:58 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57B1E62C; Thu, 3 Nov 2016 18:46:56 -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 C50FA2DE01E; Thu, 3 Nov 2016 18:46:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: 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:209141 Archived-At: On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 23:13:05 +0100 Pierre Lecocq wrote: > On 3 November 2016 at 23:01, Perry E. Metzger > wrote: > > > 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? > > According to the GNU.org page dedicated to GNU Emacs, you are right: > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/further-information.html > > Now, what month or day is another question! I suspect if anyone can tell us, it would be RMS, but I also suspect that there was no single moment when it appeared. :) Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com