There are some interesting interactions between emacs and the rest of technical computing that might be interesting additions here, or at least footnotes. For e

There are some interesting interactions between emacs and the rest of technical computing that might be interesting additions here, or at least footnotes. For example, me recollection of the first version of Linux that was worth running instead of 386BSD was 0.12... not as-posted, but with John Kohl's patches to make the select() syscall work well enough that you could actually use emacs... I wasn't the only one who saw that as a benchmark for "Oh, huh, this linux thing might actually be worth a look, if it runs emacs" (Note that it didn't have TCP yet :-)