chad <[email protected]> writes:

>
> The key approach for samterm that might make it interesting and/or
> totally irrelevant is this: sam drives samterm not via a graphics or
> display protocol, but by an on-the-line protocol that describes the
> editing changes themselves (because it was largely built around that
> concept of structural regular expressions).
>
> Likely, it'll mostly be a sideline of academic interest (so I forked the
> thread over to emacs-tangents), but there's nothing wrong with those!
>

A demo is shown in this presentation that shows multiple users driving
their own cursor in the multiuser text editor dated 1962.

Alan Kay, May 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Vn5rz6hL0



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