waits 音标拼音: [w'ets]
/
wayts /
The mutant cousin of {
TOPS -
10 }
used on a handful of
systems at {
SAIL }
up to 1990 .
There was never an "
official "
expansion of WAITS (
the name itself having been arrived at by
a rather sideways process ),
but it was frequently glossed as
"
West -
coast Alternative to ITS ".
Though WAITS was less
visible than ITS ,
there was frequent exchange of people and
ideas between the two communities ,
and innovations pioneered
at WAITS exerted enormous indirect influence .
The early
screen modes of {
Emacs },
for example ,
were directly inspired
by WAITS '
s "
E "
editor -
one of a family of editors that were
the first to do "
real -
time editing ",
in which the editing
commands were invisible and where one typed text at the point
of insertion /
overwriting .
The modern style of multi -
region
windowing is said to have originated there ,
and WAITS alumni
at XEROX PARC and elsewhere played major roles in the
developments that led to the XEROX Star ,
the Macintosh ,
and
the Sun workstations . {
Bucky bits }
were also invented there
thus ,
the ALT key on every IBM PC is a WAITS legacy .
One
notable WAITS feature seldom duplicated elsewhere was a
news -
wire interface that allowed WAITS hackers to read ,
store ,
and filter AP and UPI dispatches from their terminals ;
the
system also featured a still -
unusual level of support for what
is now called "
multimedia "
computing ,
allowing analog audio
and video signals to be switched to programming terminals .
Ken Shoemake adds :
Some administrative body told us we needed a name for the
operating system ,
and that "
SAIL "
wouldn '
t do . (
Up to that
point I don '
t think it had an official name .)
So the anarchic
denizens of the lab proposed names and voted on them .
Although I worked on the OS used by CCRMA folks (
a parasitic
subgroup ),
I was not writing WAITS code .
Those who were ,
proposed "
SAINTS ",
for (
I think )
Stanford AI New Time -
sharing
System .
Thinking of ITS ,
and AI ,
and the result of many
people using one machine ,
I proposed the name WAITS .
Since I
invented it ,
I can tell you without fear of contradiction that
it had no official meaning .
Nevertheless ,
the lab voted that
as their favorite ;
upon which the disgruntled system
programmers declared it the "
Worst Acronym Invented for a
Time -
sharing System "!
But it was in keeping with the creative
approach to acronyms extant at the time ,
including
self -
referential ones .
For me it was fun ,
if a little
unsettling ,
to have an "
acronym "
that wasn '
t .
I have no idea
what the voters thought . :)
[{
Jargon File }]
(
2003 -
11 -
17 )
Westcoast Alternative to ITS WAITS : /
wayts /,
n .
The mutant cousin of TOPS -
10 used on a handful of systems at SAIL up to 1990 .
There was never an ‘
official ’
expansion of WAITS (
the name itself having been arrived at by a rather sideways process ),
but it was frequently glossed as ‘
West -
coast Alternative to ITS ’.
Though WAITS was less visible than ITS ,
there was frequent exchange of people and ideas between the two communities ,
and innovations pioneered at WAITS exerted enormous indirect influence .
The early screen modes of EMACS ,
for example ,
were directly inspired by WAITS '
s ‘
E ’
editor —
one of a family of editors that were the first to do ‘
real -
time editing ’,
in which the editing commands were invisible and where one typed text at the point of insertion /
overwriting .
The modern style of multi -
region windowing is said to have originated there ,
and WAITS alumni at XEROX PARC and elsewhere played major roles in the developments that led to the XEROX Star ,
the Macintosh ,
and the Sun workstations .
Also invented there were bucky bits —
thus ,
the ALT key on every IBM PC is a WAITS legacy .
One WAITS feature very notable in pre -
Web days was a news -
wire interface that allowed WAITS hackers to read ,
store ,
and filter AP and UPI dispatches from their terminals ;
the system also featured a still -
unusual level of support for what is now called multimedia computing ,
allowing analog audio and video signals to be switched to programming terminals .
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