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Animats on March 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mg: an Emacs-like editor in 160 kb

This has been done before, most notably as JOVE, Jonathan's Own Version of EMACS for the PDP-11. JOVE was written by Jonathan Payne while in high school, around 1980. That had to fit in a 16-bit machine, with 128KB of RAM available to the program.

vidarh on March 23, 2015 [–]

Mg's lineage is almost as old, coming out of MicroEMACS, first published in 1985. The first version of MicroGNUEmacs, now Mg, was published in 1986.

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