Linux, GNU, and Freedom (was Re: The Stallman Factor)

John (EBo) David plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 21 May 2002 06:58:05 -0700


William Lindley wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 21 May 2002, John (EBo) David wrote:
> > emacs back in '78 on the Dec Tops-20, and at that time it was written
> > in Teco
> 
> Ah, TECO!  The Text Editor & COrrector... memories of running this on a
> PDP-11/40 and a 1200-baud ADM-3 (glass TTY, a terminal so dumb you
> couldn't move the cursor off the bottom line!)...

yep... and I remember cueing up to use the ADM-3A (which were a little
nicer ;-)

I also just missed having to lear via puch cards by 3 months (they just
got the brand spakink'n new ADM-3's ;-)

  EBo --