MIT 6.001

[Kragen]

Apparently students in MIT's introductory CS class, 6.001, are using
machines that look very much like Lisp machines to do their exercises.
You log in, you get an "Edwin" window --- which is a version of Emacs
written in Scheme --- and you can read and write Scheme code.
Apparently these are fairly powerful machines.  Under the hood, they're
running some variety of Unix (HP-UX I think) with some specialized
scripts to restrict students' access to one another's work.
See http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/emacs-html.local/nwwyw_4.html for more
info.

Kragen

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