'Kitchen Sink' OS Announced
Coding has begun on a new operating system code named 'Kitchen Sink'. The new
OS will be based entirely on GNU Emacs. One programmer explained, "Since many
hackers spend a vast amount of their time in Emacs, why not just make it the
operating system?" When asked about the name, he responded, "Well, it has been
often said that Emacs has everything except a kitchen sink. Now it will."
One vi advocate said, "What the hell?!?! Those Emacs people are nuts. It seems
that even with a programming language, a web browser, and God only knows what
else built into their text editor, they're still not satisfied. Now they want
it to be an operating system. Hell, even Windows ain't that bloated!"
Coding has begun on a new operating system code named 'Kitchen Sink'. The new
OS will be based entirely on GNU Emacs. One programmer explained, "Since many
hackers spend a vast amount of their time in Emacs, why not just make it the
operating system?" When asked about the name, he responded, "Well, it has been
often said that Emacs has everything except a kitchen sink. Now it will."
One vi advocate said, "What the hell?!?! Those Emacs people are nuts. It seems
that even with a programming language, a web browser, and God only knows what
else built into their text editor, they're still not satisfied. Now they want
it to be an operating system. Hell, even Windows ain't that bloated!"
Related:
- EMACS /ee'maks/ n.
[from Editing MACroS] The ne plus
ultra of hacker editors, a programmable text editor with an entire
LISP system inside it.
It was originally written by Richard Stallman in TECO under ITS at the MIT AI lab... - Elite Nerds Create Linux Distro From Hell
HELL, MICHIGAN -- A group of long-time Linux zealots and newbie haters
have thrown together a new Linux distro called Hellix that is so
user-hostile
o anti-newbie, so cryptic, and so old-fashioned that it actually makes MS-DOS look like a real operating system.... - vi: /V-I/, *not* /vi:/ and *never* /siks/ [from
`Visual Interface'] n.
A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early {BSD} release.... - vi /V-I/, not /vi:/ and never /siks/ n.
[from `Visual Interface'] A screen editor crufted together by
Bill Joy for an early BSD release.
Became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favorite outside of MIT until the rise of EMACS after about 1984.... - case and paste n.
[from `cut and paste'] 1. The
addition of a new feature to an existing system by selecting
the code from an existing feature and pasting it in with minor
changes.
Common in telephony circles because most operations in a telephone switch are selected using case statements.... - MS-DOS:: /M-S-dos/ [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] n.
A {clone} of {{CP/M}} for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by hacker Tim Paterson, who is said to have regretted it ever since.... - 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'.... - Stallman's Latest Proclamation
Richard M. Stallman doesn't want you to say "Windows" anymore.
He is now advocating that people call this OS by its real name... - MFTL /M-F-T-L/
[abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language']
1.
adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e....
