Re: some emacs history

["Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>]

Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net> raises a memory "CGI Emacs" about 1983 or
so.

I think you mean CCA Emacs (Computer Corporation of America, perhaps?).

It was the first Emacs available on VAX VMS, and was a commercial
product. We had it here at Utah for a couple of years, I think, until
GNU Emacs became available (but memory is hazy after 20+ years).

There are lists of historical emacs programs at

	http://www.finseth.com/emacs.html

The author of that site wrote the 1991 book "The Craft of Text Editing
--- Emacs for the Modern World".  That book, and many others, are
recorded at

	http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table-g.html#gnu

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