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Sometimes called Gosmacs, this is the member of the EmacsFamily written by JamesGosling.

'''Author:'''   James Gosling
 '''Homepage:''' http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/bio.jsp?name=James%20Gosling
 '''Family:'''   EmacsFamily
 '''Platform:''' Unix
 '''License:'''  Originally open source, later Commercial

Note that James is also the author of famous systems like Sun NEWS (windowing) and the JavaLanguage.

It used a scripting language called <nowiki>MockLisp</nowiki>.

The gosmacs mode still exists in KornShell if you do:

set -o gmacs

The GoslingEmacs editor was eventually sold to UniPress.

''Update: ''

Apparently, this company now sells help desk software and emacs can no longer be found on the website. -- RonPerrella

: Correct.  They now call themselves : Numara, and don't do emacs.  Among possible reasons why, this bit from Jim Thompson's blog from 2005 is amusing...

11/27/2005: "20 years of Free Software"

"So I went to look, and just about 18 years ago, I submitted my first GPL-licensed GNU Emacs patch, a version of unexec for the Convex machine(s).

<...>

This, and some work Bob Miller and I did one night to reduce the number of system calls in the loop that reads characters was the end of Convex licensing Unipress Emacs. The GNU variant was so much better that merely substituting it into the ConvexOS release allowed Convex to close every open bug filed against Unipress Emacs."

(Convex was a Texas based company that made "baby supercomputers", based on Motorola 680X0 CPUs.  Convex's basic concept was that most machines were I/O bound, not compute bound, and sold machines with a *lot* [for the time] of RAM, so that the entire data set being processed could be loaded into RAM.  They sold to customers who couldn't justify a couple of million for a Cray, but could spring for $250K for a Convex.)

--DMcCunney

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