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Re:The Interlisp Programming Environment (1981) [pdf] by ScottBurson on Sunday June 30, 2013 @10:02PM (#5968213)
> I suspect the comparison to Symbolics Genera would be the analog of comparing a GUI desktop environment to a console-based one

Huh? The MIT-class Lisp Machines also had GUIs from the beginning. Clunky by modern standards, as you say, but definitely graphical.

Maybe I just don't get what analogy you're trying to draw.

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Re:The Interlisp Programming Environment (1981) [pdf] by fractallyte on Monday July 01, 2013 @07:39AM (#5969942)
Yes, you're right - I was mistaken (I was thinking of Slime/Emacs). Genera had a proper hierarchical window system - screenshots just don't do it justice!
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