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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] screen editors / machine load
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:35:26 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200110153526.5D0CF18C09C@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)

    > When Bernie Greenberg did EMACS for Multics, he had a similar issue. I
    > recall reading a document with an extensive discussion of how they dealt
    > with this ... If anyone's really interested in this, and can't find it
    > themselves, I can try looking for it.

I got a request for this; a Web search turned up:

  https://www.multicians.org/mepap.html

which covers the points I mentioned (and more besides, such as why LISP was
chosen). I don't think this is the thing I remembered (which was, IIRC, an
informal note), but it does seem to be a later version of that.

	 Noel

             reply	other threads:[~2020-01-10 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-10 15:35 Noel Chiappa [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-01-10 14:35 Noel Chiappa
2020-01-08  7:39 [TUHS] screen editors Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-08 21:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-10  8:13   ` markus schnalke
2020-01-10 13:41     ` [TUHS] screen editors / machine load Mike Markowski
2020-01-10 13:56       ` Otto Moerbeek
2020-01-10 15:00       ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-01-10 15:48         ` Clem Cole
2020-01-10 22:18           ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-11  0:30             ` Christopher Browne

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