What variants of GNU Emacs exist?

• Nemacs (Nihongo Emacs), which can handle Japanese text, is derived from+ GNU Emacs 18.55. See section Where can I get an Emacs that can handle kanji characters?.
• Demacs, which can run under MS-DOS on 386 machines, is derived from Nemacs. See section Demacs -- GNU Emacs altered to run on MS-DOS on 386/486 machines.
• Epoch, which has better X support, is derived from GNU Emacs 18.58. See section Epoch -- enhanced GNU Emacs with better X interface and 92.
• Nepoch (Nihongo Epoch), which can handle Japanese text, is derived from+ Epoch.

• Mule (the MULtilingual Enhancement of GNU Emacs) can handle many character sets simultaneously. It is derived from Emacs 18.58. It is available for FTP:

  
    /sh.wide.ad.jp:/JAPAN/mule/
    /etlport.etl.go.jp:/pub/mule/
  
  

• Lucid GNU Emacs is derived from an early unreleased version of GNU Emacs 19. See section Lucid GNU Emacs -- alternative Emacs 19 with better X interface and 92.

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