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Emacs predates Lisp machines, but a version of Emacs was written in Lisp and used there (EINE[1]). The point of a Lisp machine was that it ran Lisp natively or,
by pandaman 3y ago
Emacs predates Lisp machines, but a version of Emacs was written in Lisp and used there (EINE[1]). The point of a Lisp machine was that it ran Lisp natively or, at least, closer to native than, say, a 8086 DOS box.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EINE_and_ZWEI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EINE_and_ZWEI
- lispm 3y agoEINE was the second Emacs (the first was TECO EMACS, an Emacs written in TECO macros) and EINE was the first one to be (completely) written in Lisp, on a GUI-based system.