/wayts/ T
he mutant cousin of
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=TOPS-10">TOPS-10 used on a
handful of systems at
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=SAIL">SAIL up to 1990. T
here was never an "official" expansion of WAITS (t
he name itself
having been arrived at by a rat
her sideways process), but it was frequently glossed as "West-coast Alternative to ITS". T
houg
h WAITS was less visible t
han ITS, t
here was frequent exc
hange of people and ideas between t
he two communities, and innovations pioneered at WAITS exerted enormous indirect influence. T
he early screen modes of
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Emacs">Emacs, for example, were directly inspired by WAITS' s "E" editor - one of a family of editors t
hat were t
he first to do "real-time editing", in w
hic
h t
he editing commands were invisible and w
here one typed text at t
he point of insertion/overwriting. T
he modern style of multi-region windowing is said to
have originated t
here, and WAITS alumni at XEROX PARC and elsew
here played major roles in t
he developments t
hat led to t
he XEROX Star, t
he Macintos
h, and t
he Sun workstations.
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Bucky bits">Bucky bits were also invented t
here t
hus, t
he ALT key on every IBM PC is a WAITS legacy. One notable WAITS feature seldom duplicated elsew
here was a news-wire interface t
hat allowed WAITS
hackers to read, store, and filter AP and UPI dispatc
hes from t
heir terminals t
he system also featured a still-unusual level of support for w
hat is now called "multimedia" computing, allowing analog audio and video signals to be switc
hed to programming terminals. Ken S
hoemake adds: Some c
hefistrative body told us we needed a name for t
he operating system, and t
hat "SAIL" wouldn' t do. (Up to t
hat point I don' t t
hink it
had an official name.) So t
he anarc
hic denizens of t
he lab proposed names and voted on t
hem. Alt
houg
h I worked on t
he OS used by CCRMA folks (a parasitic subgroup), I was not writing WAITS code. T
hose w
ho were, proposed "SAINTS", for (I t
hink) Stanford AI New Time-s
haring System. T
hinking of ITS, and AI, and t
he result of many people using one mac
hine, I proposed t
he name WAITS. Since I invented it, I can tell you wit
hout fear of contradiction t
hat it
had no official meaning. Nevert
heless, t
he lab voted t
hat as t
heir favorite upon w
hic
h t
he disgruntled system programmers declared it t
he "Worst Acronym Invented for a Time-s
haring System"! But it was in keeping wit
h t
he creative approac
h to acronyms extant at t
he time, including self-referential ones. For me it was fun, if a little unsettling, to
have an "acronym" t
hat wasn' t. I
have no idea w
hat t
he voters t
houg
ht. :) [
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File] (2003-11-17)
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