its VS extraterm

Compile ITS and just run :macsyma at the DDT prompt (shell/debugger) from ITS:

https://github.com/pdp-10/its

The syntax it's the same, I even made a plot and 'printed' into the host from an ARDS output from the plot command, by converting the file into PPM->PNG or PPM->PDF.

ITS didn't really have password control, one was technically added but IIRC it was a fig leaf on some requirement from outside MIT. The user accounts were there mostly to inform others who was logged on and who owned what process.

You could login either using terminal through ARPAnet dial-in support, or later over network, and over time there was added a more concrete "tourist" policy.

DonHopkins seems to have an interesting writeup https://donhopkins.medium.com/mit-ai-lab-tourist-policy-f73b...

and of course there's PDP-10 org and its gather docs on github: https://github.com/PDP-10/its

Terry and SHRDLU at 8:23 here: https://archive.org/details/what-about-tomorrow-on-the-side-...

See this for some more information: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/425#issuecomment-145588...

The Magic Switch (in reference to the More Magic, above)

Oops, URL should be https://github.com/PDP-10/its/pull/2150

For more info, see https://github.com/PDP-10/its/pull/2150

TermKit was one of the inspirations for Extraterm ( https://extraterm.org/ ). It separates command output, allows for reuse of previous output, as well mixing content types.

The terminal VSCode has been picking up on these kinds of features lately. Now they can even "sticky" the previous command line at the top of the window when scrolling through long output.

It has taken a long time, but these ideas are slowing spreading around.

Extraterm is very similar in style to what you are asking. I recommend the Qt version.

iTerm2 is a great piece of software. It is probably the best "featureful" terminal on any platform. It is also an influence on my terminal project which also has a "features are good" philosophy but isn't limited to macOS. (https://extraterm.org/ , the website needs an update. It doesn't show latest state of the Qt version.)

Windows Terminal, Tabby, ExtraTerm

My terminal, Extraterm used to have some direct text editing in older versions before changed the whole UI to use Qt and generally be much much faster.

May I plug my terminal Extraterm . :-)

The next Qt version of Extraterm (https://extraterm.org/) will have a command to copy the contents of the scrollback and/or a command output if you are using shell integration, to the clipboard.

Extraterm, because having features in a terminal emulator is a feature, and an emulator doesn't have to look like a fork of the ancient (and spartan) xterm.