gjc@paradigm.com (05/29/90)
Here is a combination of real lisp applications and another message about "how do I get TELNET input from lisp" The answer: Use TELNET on Multics. (I'm 98% sure this was written in Lisp. Probably as emacs with a special startup file).
barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) (05/29/90)
In article <808@paradigm.com> gjc@paradigm.com writes: >Here is a combination of real lisp applications and >another message about "how do I get TELNET input from lisp" > >The answer: Use TELNET on Multics. (I'm 98% sure this was written >in Lisp. Probably as emacs with a special startup file). Huh? Where did you get that idea? There's absolutely no relationship between telnet and Lisp. And Multics telnet is written in PL/I like most Multics applications. And telnet was around for years before Emacs. In fact, at the time Emacs was being implemented the only way to get single-character input on Multics was if you were logged in via a telnet connection. You may be thinking of Multics supdup, which was originally implemented in Lisp so it could use Emacs's terminal interface routines, which are written in Lisp. It was rewritten in PL/I when a general-purpose video terminal interface library (the Multics Video System) was implemented. -- Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar