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Posted Feb 14, 2026 21:49 UTC (Sat) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779)
In reply to: Version 7 Linux by willy
Parent article: The first half of the 7.0 merge window

> Any major Unix variants I forgot?

Emacs was at version 13 (after renumbering from 1.12) already in 1985.

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Version 7 Linux

Posted Feb 14, 2026 22:09 UTC (Sat) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link] (3 responses)

But Emacs is a Lisp Machine, not a Unix derivative

Version 7 Linux

Posted Feb 19, 2026 23:52 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link] (2 responses)

Na, na - as everybody knows, "Emacs is an operating system" that just happens to have an integrated editor. Google searches confirm that, and we know that Google is always right.

;-) :-)

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Posted Feb 20, 2026 0:12 UTC (Fri) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes, my point is that Emacs is of an entirely different heritage from Unix. Its lineage starts on ITS, then it was ported to the MIT Lisp Machine, then to Unix. Essentially it treats Unix as a grudging substrate; the Emacs OS is a universe of Lisp

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Posted Feb 20, 2026 0:31 UTC (Fri) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link]

Agreed, and well said.