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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
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Reply-To: pz@pinney.UUCP (Paul Czarnecki)
Organization: Eikonix Corp., Bedford, MA
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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
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