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-15.0.3.s.tar.gz from http://ftp.nice.ch/pub/next/developer/nextsources/Pre3.X/

  GNU Emacs for NeXT systems. This is a version of 18.55, plus RMS changes up until July 1990. This is interesting, because stock 18.55 was released in August 1989, and 18.56 in January 1991.

• 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 :-)"