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James.Gosl...@CMU-CS-VLSI.ARPA
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James.Gosl...@CMU-CS-VLSI.ARPA
From: James.Gosl...@CMU-CS-VLSI.ARPA
Date: Tue Apr 12 04:51:12 1983
Subject: Emacs goes commercial
Posted: Sat Apr 9 13:49:00 1983
Received: Tue Apr 12 04:51:12 1983
The version of Emacs that I wrote is now available commercially through
a company called Unipress who can be reached at (201) 985-8000. They
will be doing development, maintenance and will be producing a real
manual. Emacs will be available on many machines (it already runs on
VAXen under Unix and VMS, SUNs, codatas, and Microsoft Xenix). Along
with this, I regret to say that I will no longer be distributing it.
This is a hard step to take, but I feel that it is necessary. I can
no longer look after it properly, there are too many demands on my
time. Emacs has grown to be completely unmanagable. Its popularity
has made it impossible to distribute free: just the task of writing
tapes and stuffing them into envelopes is more than I can handle.
The alternative of abandoning it to the public domain is unacceptable.
Too many other programs have been destroyed that way.
Please support these folks. The effort that they can afford to put
into looking after Emacs is directly related to the support they get.
Their prices are reasonable.
James.
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From: fluke!jeff
Date: Mon Apr 25 08:34:10 1983
Subject: emacs from Unipress
Posted: Wed Apr 20 14:52:21 1983
Received: Mon Apr 25 08:34:10 1983
Does anybody have more solid information regarding the version of emacs that's
now being offered by Unipress? I'll share some of what I learned through a
lengthy phone conversation with Fred Pack of Unipress:
- Source licenses are now $1000; binaries are $400. They are planning
a special binary-only license for the SUN workstation - also $400.
- Licenses are per cpu.
- They could make special arrangements for sites with lots of cpu's,
but they haven't done so yet.
- The source license includes "all sources, including mlisp". I'm
still not sure he understood that I was asking if mlisp macro
libraries are included in the binary license.
- They're thinking of a periodic emacs newsletter to exchange
information among their user community. They are unfamiliar with
the emacs newsgroups on usenet and arpanet. They do not have
connections to either one.
- They didn't know what emacs version they now have. They've had it
for several months and are expecting a new one very soon.
- Their current offering "will not run under UNIX 4.1C due to technical
impediments having to do with mpx files". They are awaiting updates
to allow subprocess communication via the new 4.1C IPC mechanisms.
- They agree that good documentation is needed on the details of mlisp
argument evaluation, keymap tables, etc. They *do not* have the
manpower to write it. They might do so if they encountered a strong
demand from their customers.
Jeff Stearns ...!decvax!microsoft!fluke!jeff
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett WA. (206) 356-5064
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reid%Shasta@SU-Score
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reid%Shasta@SU-Score
From: reid%Shasta@SU-Score
Date: Sat Apr 30 00:05:12 1983
Subject: Re: emacs from Unipress
Posted: Fri Apr 22 17:18:00 1983
Received: Sat Apr 30 00:05:12 1983
From: Brian Reid <reid%Shasta@SU-Score>
The recent flurry of messages to Unix Emacs has FINALLY motivated me to
do something I've been planning for a year. I updated my Emacs-based
mail system MHE so that it does not display the junk from a header, and
so that it sorts the header fields into$!canonical order so I can find
things. Ahh, this is luxury. Of course there's a "Verbose Type" command
that will pop up a window with the full gory text of the whole &^%$#
header in it....
Brian Reid
Stanford
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From: mg@unipress.UUCP (Mike Gallaher)
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Subject: New Emacs available
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Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 10:24:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 15 10:24:19 1985
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Organization: Unipress Software Inc., Edison NJ
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Announcing the availability of a new version of Unix Emacs. We have
fixed LOTS of bugs, and added some new features. The sources have been
de-linted, reformatted and reorganized, and had internal documentation
added. Thanks to all those who sent us bug reports (and fixes!) both
directly and through Usenet. A more detailed description is available
in the Emacs Version V2.00 release notes, which you can get for free
by calling Joyce at (201) 985 8000. You may also want to get a copy of
the Emacs newsletter at the same time.
We will start shipping the version for Berkeley 4.2 during the last week of
January. That same version is now being tested under System V, and will be
available for System V in mid-February. If you want to be a test site, you
can get it now. For information, call Joyce at (201) 985 8000.
We will be sponsoring an Emacs birds-of-a-feather session at Usenix in
Dallas on Wednesday, January 23, from 7-9 pm at the Fairmont hotel. We will
have a hospitality suite open after the BOF to demonstrate the new Emacs.
Mike Gallaher
Unipress Software
...{allegra!sunrise, seismo!topaz}!unipress!mg