Yves RoumazeillesThis was initially published in reaction to discovering that there is a FAQ (maintained by “Craig A. Finseth” <fin@finseth.com>) about the various implementations of Emacs. Since I have been collecting (and building) a few ones myself that were not published elsewhere, here they come:
- A slightly modified MicroEmacs (coming from Dave G. Conroy and modified by Christian Jullien in 1987).
- I used it as a basis for some time to have my own YR-Emacs (up to v1.30a).
- What appears to be a MicroEmacs v3.12a (original v3.12 from Daniel Lawrence, but slightly modified by me in a pitiful attempt to extend it for my own use).
- Ed Davis addition in 2018: A very old (14 Dec 85) version of MicroEmacs, and a minimally updated version, to get it to compile on Windows 7 and Linux.
- readme.txt – this file.
- uemacs.message – 14 Dec 85 21:31:29 GMT message posted to net.sources, with uemacs v2.0 source.
- updated.zip – updates of the same, to get it to compile on Windows 7 and Linux.
- changes.txt – changes from original to whats in updated.zip
I am not sure that this is more than history. It looks like nobody would be using these versions today, but I don’t want to let this go. I am mainly assuming that some source code historian would find this useful in 2050 (if this web site survived until then, and the word Emacs still has a meaning).
2020-02-13 UPDATE: modified all inks to make sure that they are HTTPS, in order to avoid compatibility issues with modern web browsers.
Do you still collect old MicroEmacs versions? I have the oldest one that I am aware of. It was posted to net.sources on 14 Dec 1985 by George Jones.
With a little hacking, I was able to get it to compile on Windows 7, Cygwin under Windows 7, and Linux.
Of course I kept a copy of the unmodified version 🙂
It is not a very active hobby, but I would be glad to be able to add this to the list (both original unmodified version and hacked-up version, if you agree). I’ll drop you a mail. Thanks a lot.