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/wayts/ Th e mutant cousin of ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=TOPS-10">TOPS-10 us ed on a handful of syst ems at ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=SAIL">SAIL up to 1990. Th er e was n ev er an "official" expansion of WAITS (th e nam e its elf having b een arriv ed at by a rath er sid eways proc ess), but it was fr equ ently gloss ed as "W est-coast Alt ernativ e to ITS". Though WAITS was l ess visibl e than ITS, th er e was fr equ ent exchang e of p eopl e and id eas b etw een th e two communiti es, and innovations pion eer ed at WAITS ex ert ed enormous indir ect influ enc e. Th e early scr een mod es of ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=emacs">emacs, for exampl e, w er e dir ectly inspir ed by WAITS' s " e" editor - on e of a family of editors that w er e th e first to do "r eal-tim e editing", in which th e editing commands w er e invisibl e and wh er e on e typ ed t ext at th e point of ins ertion/ov erwriting. Th e mod ern styl e of multi-r egion windowing is said to hav e originat ed th er e, and WAITS alumni at X eROX PARC and els ewh er e play ed major rol es in th e d ev elopm ents that l ed to th e X eROX Star, th e Macintosh, and th e Sun workstations. ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Bucky bits">Bucky bits w er e also inv ent ed th er e thus, th e ALT k ey on ev ery IBM PC is a WAITS l egacy. On e notabl e WAITS f eatur e s eldom duplicat ed els ewh er e was a n ews-wir e int erfac e that allow ed WAITS hack ers to r ead, stor e, and filt er AP and UPI dispatch es from th eir t erminals th e syst em also f eatur ed a still-unusual l ev el of support for what is now call ed "multim edia" computing, allowing analog audio and vid eo signals to b e switch ed to programming t erminals. K en Sho emak e adds: Som e ch efistrativ e body told us w e n eed ed a nam e for th e op erating syst em, and that "SAIL" wouldn' t do. (Up to that point I don' t think it had an official nam e.) So th e anarchic d eniz ens of th e lab propos ed nam es and vot ed on th em. Although I work ed on th e OS us ed by CCRMA folks (a parasitic subgroup), I was not writing WAITS cod e. Thos e who w er e, propos ed "SAINTS", for (I think) Stanford AI N ew Tim e-sharing Syst em. Thinking of ITS, and AI, and th e r esult of many p eopl e using on e machin e, I propos ed th e nam e WAITS. Sinc e I inv ent ed it, I can t ell you without f ear of contradiction that it had no official m eaning. N ev erth el ess, th e lab vot ed that as th eir favorit e upon which th e disgruntl ed syst em programm ers d eclar ed it th e "Worst Acronym Inv ent ed for a Tim e-sharing Syst em"! But it was in k eeping with th e cr eativ e approach to acronyms extant at th e tim e, including s elf-r ef er ential on es. For m e it was fun, if a littl e uns ettling, to hav e an "acronym" that wasn' t. 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