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Sounds like a Greg Egan novel. I had thought it was one, but it's different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clockwork_Rocket

It has sources (see my comment above).

Do you have corroborating sources? I (and others) would be keenly interested in them!


Just my memories of being at the AI lab back then.

Would be interesting to have, e.g. an interview about this, recorded someolace reputable.

Not just. It has the origin as well:

"The new version of TECO quickly became popular at the AI Lab and soon accumulated a large collection of custom macros whose names often ended in MAC or MACS, which stood for macro. Two years later, Guy Steele took on the project of unifying the diverse macros into a single set.[21] Steele and Stallman's finished implementation included facilities for extending and documenting the new macro set.[3] The resulting system was called EMACS, which stood for Editing MACroS or, alternatively, Emacs with MACroS."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs


After Adobe's licensing/subscription shenanigans, I would have expected the license to be more salient in folks' minds.

I have seen enough atrocious proprietary UOs that I am not convinced your underlying thesis is correct.

The student could have just made it all up for some reason too.

I suspect if you're buying mad honey that's collected wild on cliff faces and then imported from Nepal, it is likely pretty clear to whoever got it that it is special.

Maybe kid could accidentally get a hold of it, or other adults that didn't buy it. However, from the article (as far as I could get before the ads locked me out) there is a type that tends to have this happen to them (middle aged men IIRC). So it seems to be intentional.


Dunno about AI, but I was turned away by the sheer amount of ad spam on the site

Remember Xandros? I'm old enough to remeber Lindows! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire


There was also Lycoris Desktop/LX https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=lycoris

Heavily XP inspired and it even came with similar task-oriented interface "hacks"


Just getting your money back doesn't make it work well with other operating systems.

Instead, buy hardware from vendors that ship hardware with the operating system you want to use preinstalled, and with support you can contact to get help if something breaks.


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