| you can read the threads on usenet at that time:
March 20, 1985 is the launch of GNU emacs -
first "clean" version of emacs is July 15, 1985 Fen Labalme message: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.emacs/Vxp_Is2A5Cs/l6AmKi... Unipress message about the "portions of the
GNU Emacs program are most definitely not public domain"
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/net.emacs/ZmwEvkr9Jfs/... RMS explaining what code he used:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.emacs/eyFgYVrEe0Q/Avxp17... and then some more discussions:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.emacs/DRVCmoISBEU/efLdK-... https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.emacs/PXHNtn7v4Rc/OFi1Ef... https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.emacs/-2IaisY2N0Q/r4Fd9N... https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.emacs/dytp5TT-02I/zUI4Ul... and one from GvR
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.emacs/HJOjV7_2cyY/Bm6oUm... https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.emacs/ilF9KtBimCk/WwO5NS... has the cost of getting an EMACS tape from RMS
"GNU Emacs can be obtained from anyone who has a copy or by sending $150 payable to me" On old emacs source code: https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history |