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I was at UCB from 1980-4 and this lines up with what I knew at the time. RMS was a frequent visitor to the group I was in, and I was a user of Gosling's Emacs
by e40 7y ago
I was at UCB from 1980-4 and this lines up with what I knew at the time. RMS was a frequent visitor to the group I was in, and I was a user of Gosling's Emacs and switched to the RMS version very early on.
- dekhn 7y ago(aside: I'm always curious to hear what was going on with UNIX at Berkeley at that time. I sat in Evans hall in the early 2000s and would randomly find hardware that was from CSRG in the drop ceilings).
- e40 7y agoI was an undergrad when, in 1981(?), Bill Joy and Bob (forget his last name) had loaded the BBN mag tape that contained the TCP/IP implementation, and they were integrating it into BSD (4.1?). It was in the shared terminal room in Evans on the 5th floor. After about 30 minutes I decided not to even try to pretend I wasn't listening to them and just watch. That was fun.