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EMACS turns 50

technologyreview.com, Technology

41Remix

A competent anniversary history of Emacs and its free-software legacy, built on well-documented accounts with few new details.

What it adds

A 50th-anniversary retelling of Emacs's lineage from TECO through Control-R to GNU, adding a few macOS tidbits. Little beyond established histories.

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  • 2 an AI would say
  • 1 known elsewhere
  • 11 common knowledge

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