- TECO EMACS (1976 - 1996)
- Zwei/Zmacs (1978 - 1997)
- SINE (1978 - ?)
- Multics Emacs (1978 - 1989)
- Montgomery Emacs (~1980)
- Gosling Emacs (1980 - 2007)
- GNU Emacs (1984 -)
- Lucid Emacs (1992 - 1994)
- XEmacs (1994 - 2013)
- MicroEMACS (1985 -)
- Prime Emacs
Run the build.sh
script to create a git repository with GNU Emacs
releases from 16.56 to 19.34. Tarballs are preferred, but some
releases are reconstructed from diffs. Timestamps will be copied from
the top entry in src/ChangeLog
; this seems to be a good heuristic.
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TECO EMACS 24 and 25.
ITS
DUMP
tape image. Binary files from late 1976. -
TECO EMACS 162 from Alfred M. Szmidt.
ai-emacs.tgz
andai-emacs1.tgz
Released September 1981-09-20, but this copy has further modifications.
"Based on AI EMACS; LOCK timestamp: 1988-03-02 or there abouts""This is for ITS (from the AI system), I think the one on MC is the same I can check if you really are curious, and this should be 162 but lack of version strings and what not make it interesting"
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emacs-v170.tap from Richard Alderson.
TOPS-20
DUMPER
tape image of TECO EMACS.<EMACS>EMACS.EXE
has timestamp May 1 1996.
Extracted in http://github.com/PDP-10/emacs/tree/extracted -
MIT
CAD R Zwei from Alfred M. Szmidt and Brad Parker.nzwei-mit-48.tar.xz
"Based on zmacs.lisp time stamp: 1980-10-17 or there abouts"zwei-mit-78.tar.xz
"Based on the System patch-dir file ;;; Written 1/11/82 13:52:10 by BSG"zwei-mit-99.tar.xz
"Based on zmacs.lisp timestamp: 1985-04-13 or there abouts""This is for MIT CADR, copies come from tapes for the MIT
CAD R system, and some backups that Brad Parker found several years ago (NN is the version of the system)" -
TI Explorer Zmacs 6 from Alfred M. Szmidt.
zmacs-ti-6.tar.xz
(System 6) "Based on zmacs.lisp time stamp: 1980-10-17 or there abouts""This is for TI Explorer (N is the version of Zmacs, not the operating system -- even though they are the same)"
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Symbolics Genera Zwei from Alfred M. Szmidt.
zwei-419.tar.xz
(Genera 8.1) "Based on the Zwei patch-dir file: ;;; Written 9/05/97 11:27:49 by LISPM"zwei-430.tar.xz
(Genera 8.3) "Based on the Zwei patch-dir file: ;;; Written 2/02/93 11:06:17 by Palter"zwei-436.tar.xz
(Genera 8.5 / Open Genera 2.0) "Based on the Zwei patch-dir file: ;;; Written 4/10/91 15:20:14 by Palter""This is from Genera, copies come from CD-ROMs and tapes distributed with the Symbolics Lisp Machines (zwei-NNN where NNN is the version of Zwei/Zmacs)"
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zwei-lambda.tar.xz from Alfred M. Szmidt and Joe Marshall.
"This is for/from Lambda, I do not know the version sadly :( The copy comes from Joe Marshall who used to work at Gigamos."
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Multics Emacs 12.9 from web.mit.edu.
Last changed in 1989-11-14.
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Emacs 13.8 from http://decuslib.com/decus/vax85b/gnuemax/emacs/
Possibly with VMS modifications.
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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."
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emacs-16.57-1.diff and emacs-16.57-2.diff from Usenet net.sources.
It seems this is not the official 16.57. There are no ChangeLogs entries.
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Emacs 16.60, emacs.tar.Z
Mike Haertel: "This tar file came from a nine track tape that was sent to members of the Unix Users of Minnesota.
I don't know if it's an original tar file made by RMS, but at least the timestamps of the files within look correct, except maybe for a few of the top level directories which are dated Oct 2, 1985."
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Emacs 17.61 from ftp://www.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/4BSD/Distributions/4.3BSD/new.tar.gz
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emacs-17.61.diff and emacs-17.64.diff from Usenet net.emacs.
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Emacs 17.62 from http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/DEC/vax/ultrix/3.0/Ultrix-32_3.0_unsupp.tap.gz, with help from Alfred M. Szmidt
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Emacs "17.VMS-2" from http://decuslib.com/decus/vax86b/gnuemacs/
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emacs_18.41.tar.gz from http://bitsavers.org/bits/MIT/gnu/
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edist_18_51.tar_z from http://decuslib.com/decus/vax88a1/gnusoftware/
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emacs.tar.Z (modified 18.51) from ftp://www.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/4BSD/Distributions/4.3BSD-Tahoe/new.tar.gz
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edist_18_52.tar_lzw from http://decuslib.com/decus/vax88b2/gnusoftware/
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diff-18* from http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/gnu/funet/historical-funet-gnu-area-from-early-1990s/emacs/
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edist_18_51.tar_z from http://decuslib.com/decus/vax88a1/gnusoftware/
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edist_18_52.tar_lzw from http://decuslib.com/decus/vax88b4/gnusoftware/
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emacs-18.55.tar.gz from ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/msdos/editors/emacs/
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emacs-18.55.tar.Z from ftp://ftp.cs.ait.ac.th/pub/pc/demacs/
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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.
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NeXT GNU Emacs 18.55.122 from https://github.com/johnsonjh/NeXTEmacs
GitHub repository; the original source is anonymous. This version should be slightly newer than emacs-15.0.3.s.tar.gz.
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emacs-18.57.tar.gz from http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/gnu/funet/historical-funet-gnu-area-from-early-1990s/emacs/
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emacs-18.58.tar.gz from http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/gnu/funet/historical-funet-gnu-area-from-early-1990s/emacs/
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emacs-18.59.tar.gz from http://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/
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emacs-18-patches* from http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/emacs/
To build Emacs 18.59 on a modern Linux system.
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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/
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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/
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emacs-19.29.tar.gz and emacs-19.30.tar.gz from http://ftp.tiscali.nl/pub/mirrors/sunfreeware/SOURCES/
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emacs-19.31.tar.gz from http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-3.1/source/e/
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emacs-19.34b.tar.gz from http://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/
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lemacs* and xemacs* from http://ftp.xemacs.org/Attic/Releases/
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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 :-)"
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gosling-emacs.tar from der Mouse.
"I got it from a prerelase of Eunice, obtained because one of the people behind Eunice personally knew some people at the lab I was then hanging out at. ("Then" is mid-'80s sometime.) Once I started using a real Unix (4.2c, then 4.3 shortly after that, then SunOS, then....) I ripped out the special-case Eunice code and have been maintaining (and slowly evolving) it over the years since then."
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Gosling emacs.tap from DECUS/Stuttgart University/neozeed.
"This is apparently Gosling Emacs from 1984 tape. The decus tape label is : UniPress Software Inc. PRODUCT: EMACS SCREEN EDITOR VAX/SUN UNIX 4.2 Source (C)1983 tar S/N # 1054 7/84"
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old-uemacs.tar.gz from Dave Conroy.
"I probably have a version that predates any of Daniel Lawrence's changes, but I will need to look around a little and find it."
"This looks like a version from 1986." -
emacs23.tap from Dennis Boone.