[TUHS] screen editors / machine load
Noel Chiappa
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Sat Jan 11 01:35:26 AEST 2020
> When Bernie Greenberg did EMACS for Multics, he had a similar issue. I
> recall reading a document with an extensive discussion of how they dealt
> with this ... If anyone's really interested in this, and can't find it
> themselves, I can try looking for it.
I got a request for this; a Web search turned up:
https://www.multicians.org/mepap.html
which covers the points I mentioned (and more besides, such as why LISP was
chosen). I don't think this is the thing I remembered (which was, IIRC, an
informal note), but it does seem to be a later version of that.
Noel
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