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Aucbvax.4644 fa.editor-p utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!editor-people Sat Oct 24 01:47:40 1981 Re: apparently random Alto snipe >From Admin.JQJ@SU-SCORE Sat Oct 24 01:13:09 1981 Although discussion of personal workstations is relevant to the discussion of editors, it is hard for me to imagine having a LISP machine available to each of the ~4000 LOTS kids, or better yet to each of the ~20000 Stanford students and faculty who may want to use an editor to write a term paper or journal article. I care about the editor technology implied by or possible on a LISP machine only insofar as it represents experiments that in 10 years will be reflected in the personal computers available to every student or secretary. Meanwhile, my sights are lower: I want the best editor technology that can be offered to the masses in 1984.

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