[contraction of `Gosling EMACS'] The first {EMACS}-in-C implementation, predating but now largely eclipsed by {GNUMACS}. Originally freeware; a commercial version was modestly popular as `UniPress EMACS' during the 1980s. The author, James Gosling, went on to invent {NeWS} and the programming language Java; the latter earned him {demigod} status.
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {demigod}{EMACS}{GNUMACS}{metasyntactic variable}{whack}]