Can't say that I expected this. Wasn't there some fork that also stopped development years ago (SXEmacs, maybe)? I remember using XEmacs more in my early Linux days, I think it did color syntax highlighting in the terminal earlier than GNUmacs 19.xx…

If surprised come in threes, I'd be hard-pressed what to nominate for the remaining two, especiall now that Duke Nukem ain't a meme anymore. A usable Hurd? A new WordStar? An expandable, consumer level desktop Mac? Perl with built-in OO?