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An Introduction to the Emacs Editor (1978)
- richardboegli 8y agoSaw this on lobster.rs and noticed it hadn't been cross-posted. https://lobste.rs/s/3eea4k/introduction_emacs_editor_1978 https://lobste.rs/s/3eea4k/introduction_emacs_editor_1978
- jonjacky 8y agoI found this excerpt from section 1 a very telling indicator of how times have changed since 1978: "This memo is aimed at users unfamiliar not only with the Emacs editor, but also with the ITS operating system. ... Emacs runs on the ITS machines, AI, ML, MC, and DM. For people coming from an Arpanet TIP, the host numbers are: 134 (AI), 198 (ML), 236 (MC), and 70 (DM). If you don't have a regular username there, ... (use) the WHOIS program: :WHOIS XYZ. If WHOIS didn't find any regular user XYZ, you can use that name. :LOGIN XYZ. You are now talking to DDT, the top-level, monitor program ..." A TIP was an Arpanet Terminal Interfact Processor. Each TIP had a telephone number known to Arpanet users, who could dial in to any TIP then connect to any Arpanet host. I recall there was no authentication at the TIP, each host was supposed to handle its own authentication.