Multics Emacs
Following on from an earlier post on the history of vi, Luke Gorrie points to Bernard S. Greenberg's Multics Emacs paper:
Wonderful stuff. You just don't get the fun of having to move parts of your input/redisplay code into device drivers today.
I was saying the other day how disappointing it is to me that university Human-Computer Interaction courses always lionize a particular set of projects and in particular the Xerox Star. While the Star was quite an achievement, I think it has become a bit hackneyed as an example. There are plenty of other designs which in their historical context were very innovative and which teach equally or more important lessons. Moving from line editors to interaction may be one.
posted Wed 17 Sep 2003 in /software/emacs | link
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