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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Open-Source and programming style
Date: 1998/11/23
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In article <731eqv$9ff$1@news.nyu.edu> kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:

 > Actually, GNU EMACS was a clone of ITS EMACS, though that was also 
 > Open Software (in a sense) and written by the same person.

  Where ITS stands for Incompatible Time Sharing.  ITS ran on DEC
hardware (the PDP-6, PDP-10, DEC-10 and DEC-20 family) while CTSS
(Compatible Time Sharing System), also developed at MIT ran originally
on the IBM 7094.
--

					Robert I. Eachus

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