EMACS Version 162.43z ?

EMACS Version 162.43z ?

[Peter Tury]

Hi,

I have access to an ancient VMS through terminal. It has Emacs and I
can use it. :-))) It's version is (got for M-x version) "EMACS Version
162.43z". What does this mean compared to v21.4, v22, v23, ... what we
have nowadays? Do you know its release year? How can I figure it out?
I googled for it and saw somewhere 1984. Is this realistic? Is it
possible somehow to get e.g. a news file for it (or for its (near)
successor)?

Of course I ask these only out of pure curiosity ;-)

Thanks,
P

Re: EMACS Version 162.43z ?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 05.06.2007 um 15:59 schrieb Peter Tury:

> Of course I ask these only out of pure curiosity ;-)

report-emacs-bug can give some information – nowadays!

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Greetings

   Pete

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opposite.

Re: EMACS Version 162.43z ?

[Daniel Jensen]

Peter Tury <tury.peter@gmail.com> writes:

> I have access to an ancient VMS through terminal. It has Emacs and I
> can use it. :-))) It's version is (got for M-x version) "EMACS Version
> 162.43z". What does this mean compared to v21.4, v22, v23, ... what we
> have nowadays? Do you know its release year? How can I figure it out?
> I googled for it and saw somewhere 1984. Is this realistic? Is it
> possible somehow to get e.g. a news file for it (or for its (near)
> successor)?

The version number points to CCA Emacs, a proprietary emacs
implementation. The year 1984 is probably correct, but I'm only guessing
from Google results like you did. There is a document explaining some
differences between GNU Emacs and CCA Emacs at 
<http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/contrib/epoch/epoch-4.2/etc/CCADIFF>,
dated 1985.