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GOSMACS /goz'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.