[travisjungroth]

(Only read the abstract). I’m learning Emacs and it’s making me think that we missed on the correct abstraction level of the operating system. There are programs that are OS-like (Emacs, browsers, Electron, anything that takes plug-ins). Maybe operating systems could have been lower level, and we could have developed more/better options on the pseudoOS level on top. This seems somewhat inline with the Smalltalk vision.

[pjmlp]

Well, have a look at

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/interlisp_...

Then follow up with "The Interlisp Programming Environment"

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/1981/04/01667317/1...

"Graphical Programming in Interlisp-D"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlN0hHLZL8c

"Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4

Cedar was the very first graphical workstation for something like .NET and Java would later kind of try to become.

[LargoLasskhyfv]

While that seems to be like almost lost history, and a forgotten art, it is not!

Because

[1] https://interlisp.org/

&

[2] https://github.com/interlisp

[travisjungroth]

Thanks!