Have you tried Plan 9? It's like a breath of fresh air ... :O Best,
Sean On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Noel Chiappa <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Eric Christopherson > > > people who like to program in languages or language implementations > or > > libraries that are no longer in common mainstream use? > > I prefer to write code under (effectively) V6 Unix; I find that I can get > things working and done faster there than in any other environment. Of > course, > if one sticks to just the Standard I/O library, you can get more or less > than > same environment pretty much everywhere: Windows, Linux, etc. > > > > From: Sean Conner > > > My current Holy Grail piece of software would be Synthesis OS---an > > operating system written in assembly (in 1991) that can recompile and > > specialize itself on the fly [6]---basically, a program can request > and get > > custom system calls to use. > > ... > > [6] http://valerieaurora.org/synthesis/SynthesisOS/ > > Wow. I had a look at that site: Very Very Very Cool. > > Is source still extant anywhere? (I know, I could email the creator...) > > > Also, ISTR a post which talked about Guy Steele working on EMACS. I don't > think that can be correct - Guy had, IIRC, departed MIT before I got to > Tech > Sq, and EMACS had just started being developed when I got there. > > As to who actually did do EMACS, it was a cast of characters, and I wasn't > enough part of it to know who should be listed. RMS was, of course, primus > inter pares, but there were others. E.g. I remember Gene Cicarelli did > some stuff. > > There was this thing called IVORY which IIRC 'purified' TECO code so that > it > could be dumped out in a compressed form (for faster loading, execution, > etc > - it may have also been possible to have it read-only, and the page(s) > shared > between multiple EMACS instances, but my memory is foggy on this), and Gene > did that. > > Noel >
