Larry Masinter

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The assumptions about the network don't match current capabilities. There's code in Loops, for example, that uses the Ethernet ID as a unique ID address -- kind of assuming that...

please note there is a script 'cpv' in medley/scripts/ which is used by loadup and other scripts for maintaining versioned files from the Unix shell. It started as a quick...

I don't think it was an old behavior to prompt with a menu when you've called the editor with an invalid function or other name. I dislike the menu of...

Enabling arrow keys in SEdit would be a useful addition, even if not as urgent. One problem is there is some subtlety about how cursor keys should work around parentheses....

I forget where they came from, but the files in the interlisp/DOS repo includes a DOS.md which describes a successful run by @alexshendi of Medley on DOS. @ekaltman that he...

I think we need to verify that this path is well-documented at least. Is it possible to package up a docker container with a 386/DOS emulator, for online users?

I have taken some things in XCL and moved them into the LISP / CL package, but I haven't quite had the courage to do it wholesale based on the...

I think the convention used by X implementors was to add another field of "SCALE" to FAMILY, SIZE, FACE, ROTATION, CHARSET. https://straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/fonts.php (ignore warnings)

I thought that the rendering of "spline" fonts on color or gray scale doesn't rely on BITBLT but rather using the grayscale to get antialiasing (with gray scale) and even...

I'd like to try this out before commiting -- isn't the order kind of derived from the order the symbols qppear in the function? Is it better to lose information?...