MIT's Emacs text editor marks 50 years since first run
The gist
Emacs, the text editor first run at MIT's AI Lab in 1976, turns 50 this year.
Its sharing community helped seed the free software movement and GNU/Linux.
How it unfolded
- 1962Dan Murphy '65 created the TECO text editor (originally "Tape Editor and Corrector") for the PDP-1 computer at MIT.
- Fall 1971Carl Mikkelsen '76 created Control-R, a TECO add-on that immediately displayed changes on video-display "glass teletype" terminals.
- 1976EMACS first ran on the early video terminals at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.