Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!ll-xn!adelie!munsell!pz From: pz@munsell.UUCP (Paul Czarnecki) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Flavors of emacs Message-ID: <1779@pinney.munsell.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 12:27:14 GMT References: <29892@bbn.COM>Reply-To: pz@pinney.UUCP (Paul Czarnecki) Organization: Eikonix Corp., Bedford, MA Lines: 30 In article ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: >I thought CCA gave up on EMACS. CCA EMACS is Zimmermans EMACS which is an >extension of Warren Montgomery's EMACS (the EMACS available from AT&T). A long time ago in a universe far far away I used to be professionally connected with CCA EMACS. Ok, heres the scoop. Steve Zimmerman wrote CCA EMACS based on Warren Montgomery's emacs. For a while it freely distributed. When CCA decided to sell it, CCA lawyers and ATT lawyers (and hopefully some software people) sat down and eliminated the ATT code. CCA sold it for awhile. Later on, CCA was purchased by Crowntek (a Canadian technology corporate conglomerate) and CCA Uniworks was spun off. CCA Uniworks was wholly owned subsidiary of CCA. (Our paychecks even said CCA on them.) Later, CCA Uniworks became an independent corporation called Uniworks Inc. That is where they stand today. They still exists, and they still sell CCA EMACS. (Which I'm pretty sure I should put (tm) after so there!) DISCLAIMER: This is not meant to be an endorsement of Uniworks, just the facts ma'am. I happen to like software geneology. If anyone can add anything else, please send me mail. If you liked the original CCA EMACS Sun mouse environment, you can thank me, if you didn't like them, you can blame me. pZ -- Paul Czarnecki -- A Newsfeed is Sometime Thing {{harvard,ll-xn}!adelie,{decvax,allegra,talcott}!encore}!munsell!pz