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Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> writes:

> Jesper Harder  <harder@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
>>twenex.org is running TOPS-20 with an Emacs identifying itself as:
>>
>>   EMACS Editor, version 165 - type ^_ (the help character) for help.
>>
>>its.svensson.org is runing ITS with an Emacs saying:
>>
>>   EMACS Editor, version 162 - type Help(^_H) for help.
>
> Since this is gnu.emacs.help, I suspect the OP is mainly interested
> in GNU Emacs.  ITS EMACS is a totally different beast (although it
> was written by RMS as well).

Yeah, but the interesting thing is that both of them feel very
familiar -- I think anyone who's used to a modern Emacs would have few
problems using the old versions.  The Emacs user interface hasn't
really changed that much.

Compare that to using ITS or TOPS-20.