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Re: What the next machine will be like after iMac.
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Lars Brinkhoff |
Subject: |
Re: What the next machine will be like after iMac. |
Date: |
11 Nov 2003 07:32:48 +0100 |
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Arjan Bos <Arjan.Bos@nospam.ISeeYou.nl> writes:
> Dan Anderson wrote:
> > > The next machines will be Lisp machines with Emacs operating
> > > system running on them.
> > I've been using Emacs as an OS for years and never once looked
> > back. [...] Plus I can customize just about anything I want in
> > LISP. All hail the one true editor!
> So the whole FSF movement and all its GNU tools are created just to
> make the Emacs OS? Interesting direction of thought!
At least Lisp had a prominent role in the original announcement of the
GNU project:
... we plan to have longer filenames, file version numbers, a
crashproof file system, filename completion perhaps, terminal-
independent display support, and eventually a Lisp-based window
system through which several Lisp programs and ordinary Unix
programs can share a screen. Both C and Lisp will be available as
system programming languages.
--
Lars Brinkhoff, Services for Unix, Linux, GCC, HTTP
Brinkhoff Consulting http://www.brinkhoff.se/
Re: What the next machine will be like after iMac., Tim McNamara, 2003/11/07