Re: [TUHS] Tech Sq elevator (Was: screen editors)

Mention of elevators at Tech Square reminds me of visiting there to see the Lisp machine. I was struck by cultural differences. At the time we were using Jerqs, where multiple windows ran like multiple time-sharing sessions. To me that behavior was a no-brainer. Surprisingly, Lisp-machine windows didn't work that way; only the user-selected active window got processor time. The biggest difference was emacs, which no one used at Bell Labs. Emacs, of course was native to the Lisp machine and provided a powerful and smoothly extensible environment. For example, its reflective ability made it easy to display a list of its commands. "Call elevator" stood out amng mundane programmering actions like cut, paste and run. After scrolling through the command list, I wondered how long it was and asked to have it counted. Easy, I thought, just pass it to a wc-like program. But "just pass it" and "wc-like" were not givens as they are in Unix culture. It took several minutes for the gurus to do it--without leaving emacs, if I remember right. Doug