GOSMACS

( /gozĀ“maks/, n.)

   [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}]