emacs-history/README.md

# Historical Emacs tarballs

Run the `build.sh` script to create a git repository with all GNU
Emacs releases.  TECO EMACS, Gosling Emacs, Lucid Emacs and XEmacs are
not included.

## Provenance

- emacs-v170.tap from Richard Alderson.

  TOPS-20 `DUMP` tape image of TECO EMACS.  Extracted in
  http://github.com/PDP-10/emacs/tree/extracted

- Emacs 13.8 from http://decuslib.com/decus/vax85b/gnuemax/emacs/

  Possibly with VMS modifications.

- emacs-16.56.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.splode.com/pub/users/friedman/emacs/

  Noah Friedman: "In 1993 I recovered a copy of the Emacs 16.56
  sources from backup tapes at MIT because rms needed it in a court
  case with Unisys.  I put it back up for ftp a couple of years later
  and it's relatively easy to find these days."

- Emacs 17.61 from ftp://www.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/4BSD/Distributions/4.3BSD/new.tar.gz

- Emacs "17.VMS-2" from http://decuslib.com/decus/vax86b/gnuemacs/

- emacs_18.41.tar.gz from http://bitsavers.org/bits/MIT/gnu/

- edist_18_51.tar_z from http://decuslib.com/decus/vax88a1/gnusoftware/

- emacs.tar.Z (**modified** 18.51) from ftp://www.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/4BSD/Distributions/4.3BSD-Tahoe/new.tar.gz

- edist_18_52.tar_lzw from http://decuslib.com/decus/vax88b2/gnusoftware/

- diff-18* from http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/gnu/funet/historical-funet-gnu-area-from-early-1990s/emacs/

- edist_18_51.tar_z from http://decuslib.com/decus/vax88a1/gnusoftware/

- edist_18_52.tar_lzw from http://decuslib.com/decus/vax88b4/gnusoftware/

- emacs-18.55.tar.gz from ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/msdos/editors/emacs/

- emacs-18.55.tar.Z from ftp://ftp.cs.ait.ac.th/pub/pc/demacs/

- emacs-18.57.tar.gz from  http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/gnu/funet/historical-funet-gnu-area-from-early-1990s/emacs/

- emacs-18.58.tar.gz from  http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/gnu/funet/historical-funet-gnu-area-from-early-1990s/emacs/

- emacs-18.59.tar.gz from  http://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/

- emacs-19.7.tar.gz to emacs-19.21.tar.gz from http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/gnu/funet/historical-funet-gnu-area-from-early-1990s/old/

- emacs-19.22.tar.gz to emacs-19.28.tar.gz from http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/gnu/funet/historical-funet-gnu-area-from-early-1990s/emacs/

- emacs-19.29.tar.gz and emacs-19.30.tar.gz from http://ftp.tiscali.nl/pub/mirrors/sunfreeware/SOURCES/

- emacs-19.31.tar.gz from http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-3.1/source/e/

- emacs-19.34b.tar.gz from  http://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/

- lemacs* and xemacs* from http://ftp.xemacs.org/Attic/Releases/

- gosling-emacs-1999.tar and gosling-emacs-2007.tar from http://brian.org/~reid/misc

  Brian Reid: "I found two versions.
  They are in  reid.org/~brian/misc/gosling-emacs-1999.tar
     and       reid.org/~brian/misc/gosling-emacs-2007.tar

  In 1999 I updated it so it would work with gcc 2
  In 2007 I paid some Russian kid to update it so that it would work
  with gcc 3
  When gcc 4 came out it would no longer compile, and I just sort of
  walked away from it."

  "I got the source from you in 1983. I did a little bit
  of work on it so it would run under 4.3BSD. It was then untouched
  until gcc 2.0 came out; I had to change every variable-argument
  function call.

  So my 1999 version is identical to your 1983 version except for
  those two things."

  About publishing the files:

  Brian Reid: "Fine with me. I consider them to be James' property and not my own."

  James Gosling: "It’s fine with me too. Archaeology is a good thing :-)"