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Emacs' first public release was 40 years ago today, 20 March 1985

by nemoniac on 3/20/25, 5:44 AM with 1 comments

• by rahen on 3/20/25, 2:39 PM

  That's _GNU_ Emacs. The original Emacs is even older (1976), though back then it was still a set of TECO macros rather than a C core with Lisp macros.

  Interestingly, the very first version of Emacs on the PDP-10 in 1976 was already developed by Richard Stallman.