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The video mentions that the editor running in one of the windows is Emacs. Since the video is from 1988, this would be Emacs about version 18.50¹, which did, I
by teddyh 4y ago
The video mentions that the editor running in one of the windows is Emacs. Since the video is from 1988, this would be Emacs about version 18.50¹, which did, IIRC, have split-window functionality. So they had, in the video, another, running, (albeit text-only) implementation of tiling windows.
1. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/history.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/history.html
- adrian_b 4y agoI believe that the BRIEF text editor was strongly inspired by EMACS (by the original EMACS, because the GNU Emacs was launched almost simultaneously with BRIEF). Like from EMACS, you could do pretty much anything from inside the editor and BRIEF also had a very powerful LISP-like macro language, from which you could modify the behavior of any key press and so on. So there is no wonder if its window system was also inspired by EMACS (assuming that the original EMACS already had tiling windows, which I do not know).
- teddyh 4y agoThe original EMACS did not use LISP. https://emacs.brause.cc/timeline.html https://emacs.brause.cc/timeline.html
- lispm 4y agoThe MIT Lisp Machine had a version of Emacs written in Lisp called ZWEI and later called Zmacs. The Lisp Machine window system had tiling features in its window manager and also a split screen feature in ZWEI. The 1980 sources of the Lisp operating system had that, but it might have been developed earlier.