"Copy" is a little strong: inspired by, certainly, by way of help/help,
but there's an amazing difference in the structure of acme as "text editor
as file server"
with many independent clients accessing it through the file system.
Oberon had a more conventional module "plug-in" structure within a single
process.
Acme's user interface is also more strictly text-oriented, and streamlined
the mouse conventions.

On 14 September 2012 15:19, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:

> neither is knowledge of oberon ubiquitous among 9fans, who may
> not realize that acme itself is a copy.
>