What are you missing? [LWN.net]

What are you missing?

Posted May 24, 2005 20:36 UTC (Tue) by emkey (guest, #144)
In reply to: What are you missing? by boudewijn
Parent article: Public Domain Enhancement Act reintroduced

I seem to recall emacs source being 10mb uncompressed around 1989 or so. I have no idea what it is today. In any case, given how small drives were at the time that may go a long way towards explaining why it is so hard to find really old versions of emacs.

I'm sure there are some old cartridge tapes out there with copies. Good luck reading 'em though.

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What are you missing?

Posted May 25, 2005 6:10 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

In those days (1985) you got your Emacs on a big fat 1600 bpi magtape, by mail, sent by RMS himself (back when he was sleeping on the floor at MIT and using the fees he charged for tape duplication to buy food).

Yes, I'm old (though not as old as RMS).