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Neither Emacs nor the control/meta keys were invented on Lisp Machines. Emacs was written in TECO on DEC's PDP machines. The control/meta keys actually date ba
by lispm 9y ago
Neither Emacs nor the control/meta keys were invented on Lisp Machines. Emacs was written in TECO on DEC's PDP machines.
The control/meta keys actually date back to Professor Wirth at Stanford. The Stanford keyboard had control/meta then. MIT then had it in the form of the Knight keyboard.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/hackdict/split/bucky_bits.html http://www.lysator.liu.se/hackdict/split/bucky_bits.html
- kps 9y agoControl as a modifier key (not a bucky bit) certainly predates that, if the dates in the link are correct.
- DonHopkins 9y agoDouble Bucky (C) 1978 by Guy L. Steele, Jr. (Sung to the tune of "Rubber Duckie") Double bucky, you're the one! You make my keyboard lots of fun Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Control and Meta side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide! Double bucky, a half a thousand glyphs, plus a few! Oh, I sure wish that I Had a couple of bits more! Perhaps a Set of pedals to Make the number of Bits four: Double double bucky! Double bucky, left and right OR'd together, outta sight! Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you! (For those of you who are interested, the term "bucky bits" comes from Niklaus Wirth, known as "bucky" to friends, who suggested that an extra bit be added to terminal codes on 36 bit machines for use by screen editors.) http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/text/double-bucky.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/text/double-bucky.html