GOSMACS /goz'maks/ Gosling Emacs. The first {Emacs} implementation in {C}, predating but now largely eclipsed by {GNU} {Emacs}. Originally {freeware}; a commercial version is now modestly popular as {UniPress Emacs}. The author (James Gosling) went on to invent {NeWS}. [{Jargon File}]