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djuber

@fabionatali might want to check github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs if you actually want to try, I bet anything before the early nineties will be harder to build on a modern unix.

The patch set for emacs 18 in dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/emacs/ probably has hints needed to port anything much older, 18.59 is from 1992, so already more than a decade after Stallman's report you linked, and somehow more than 30 years old now. It's also the oldest version in ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/

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Lars Brinkhoff

@djuber @fabionatali Here's a presentation where I demo TECO, Emacs from 1976, and some other things. Another time I demoed E (from Stanford), Gosling Emacs, and GNU Emacs 16, but that video is not available yet.
youtube.com/watch?v=xdJtANtJMI

Fabio Natali at #37c3

@larsbrinkhoff

Thanks Lars, I watched the presentation. Fascinating, I really enjoyed it, it gives a lot of context on that early period. :heart: I'd be curious to watch the GNU Emacs 16 demo too, if you get to publish it at some point.

@djuber

Fabio Natali at #37c3

@djuber

Hi, I watched Lars' presentation on TECO and a couple of very early Emacsen (late 70s and early 80s).

youtube.com/watch?v=xdJtANtJMI

I think that gave me all the context I needed in terms of that period and those early versions. ❤️ I might try a slightly more modern GNU Emacs (from the 90s), following the links you mentioned.

Ty!

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