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> Just ditch that thing for something this side of the millennium marker eh? AltGr worked fine in DOS editors like the Borland Turbo C 1.0 "IDE" from 1987.
by tomatsu 10y ago
> Just ditch that thing for something this side of the millennium marker eh?
AltGr worked fine in DOS editors like the Borland Turbo C 1.0 "IDE" from 1987.
- josteink 10y agoIt was an intentional stab at an absolutely mind-blowing lacking. I thought the Emacs reference would give it away, but oh well.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoFor those of you not in the know, the modified TECO would eventually become the first version of EMACS was built be RMS somewhere between '72-'74. GLS and RMS consolidated a collection of custom macros floating around the AI lab into the first real version of Emacs in '76, on ITS. This was radically different from the Emacs of today, but it was Emacs. The first public release of GNU Emacs, the emacs which, along with its derivatives, is pretty much the only one in use today (save those oddballs using lispms, and the other oddballs using Hemlock derivatives), was released in 1984, and is 32 years old. The original emacs is 40 years old.
- cpr 10y ago...and that's why my Emacs finger habits are about 40 years old. Scary. I miss ITS and TWENEX every so often...
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoWow. I didn't think I'd see any old-timers around here. I'm not one, in case you're wondering. If you want to scratch that ITS itch, you can emulate it, of course, or you can request an account on UP (http://up.update.uu.se http://up.update.uu.se). If you want to know how to emulate ITS, or just want a refresher in how it works, I recommend http://its.victor.se/wiki/ http://its.victor.se/wiki/