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Text Ed (History Series on Text Editors) - Emacs
GNU Emacs
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
TECO editor
https://dbpedia.org/page/TECO_(text_editor)
TECO-6, compatible with the PDP-6
https://web.archive.org/web/20021001151829/http://www.transbay.net/%7Eenf/lore/teco/teco-64.html
Gosling Emacs
https://youtu.be/TJ6XHroNewc?t=9896
Initially Gosling permitted unrestricted redistribution
https://youtu.be/TJ6XHroNewc?t=10519
Free software movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_movement
UniPress began to redistribute and sell Gosling's Emacs on UNIX and VMS
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-12/page/n335/mode/2up?view=theater&q=unipress+emacs
Interview in 2013 via Slashdot, Richard Stallman
https://features.slashdot.org/story/13/01/06/163248/richard-stallman-answers-your-questions
The Free Software Foundation is born
https://web.archive.org/web/20130525155859/http://corp.sec.state.ma.us/corp/corpsearch/CorpSearchSummary.asp?ReadFromDB=True&UpdateAllowed=&FEIN=042888848
Richard Gabriel's Lucid Inc needed version 19 to support their IDE, Energize C++
https://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html
Emacs 21.1
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2001-10/msg00009.html
Emacs 22.1
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2007-06/msg00000.html
The last official release of XEmacs
http://www.xemacs.org/Releases/21.4.22.html
Emacs 23.1
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2009-07/msg00000.html
Emacs 24.1
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2012-06/msg00000.html
Emacs 25.1
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-09/msg00451.html
Emacs 26.1
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-05/msg00765.html
Emacs 27.1
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-08/msg00237.html
Emacs 28.1
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-04/msg00093.html
Emacs 28.2, the latest maintenance release is out
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-09/msg00730.html
Further Reading
The Beginnings of TECO
https://opost.com/tenex/anhc-31-4-anec.pdf
Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL
https://web.archive.org/web/19991103221236/http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/%7Eelf/hack/realmen.html
Emacs Timeline
https://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html
Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation
https://web.archive.org/web/20000819071104/http%3A//www.multicians.org/mepap.html
Emacs History
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/history.html
Macsimizing Teco
https://web.archive.org/web/20131024150047/http://www.codeartnow.com/hacker-art-1/macsimizing-teco
History of Emacs and XEmacs
https://web.archive.org/web/20101122021051/http://commandline.org.uk/2007/history-of-emacs-and-xemacs/
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