TOPS-20 was preferred by most PDP-10 users over TOPS-10 ( at least by those who were not ITS or WAITS partisans ).

Steele also designed the original command set of Emacs and was the first to port TeX ( from WAITS to ITS ).

There was never an " official " expansion of WAITS, but a common variant was " West-coast Alternative to ITS "; another variant was " Worst Acronym Invented for a Timesharing System ".

Though WAITS was less visible than ITS, there was frequent exchange of people and ideas between the two communities, and innovations pioneered at WAITS exerted enormous indirect influence.

One WAITS feature very notable in pre-Web days was a news-wire interface that allowed WAITS hackers to read, store, and filter AP and UPI dispatches from their terminals.

SAIL was ported from WAITS to ITS so that MIT researchers could make use of software developed at Stanford University.

During that time, he wrote the infamous RFC 748, the only document specifically marked in the RFC index with note date of issue ; and a series of Telnet implementations for the Incompatible Timesharing System, WAITS, and TOPS-20 operating systems whose escape behavior was playfully immortalized by Guy Steele in the April 1984 Communications of the ACM as The Telnet Song.

One of his projects was a collaborative display system for the WAITS system of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( SAIL ).

Early versions of Monitor and TOPS-10 formed the basis of Stanford's WAITS operating system and the Compuserve time-sharing system.

In 1978, there were half a dozen different operating systems for the PDP-10: ITS ( MIT ), WAITS ( Stanford ), TOPS-10 ( DEC ), CMU TOPS-10 ( Carnegie Mellon ), TENEX ( BBN ), and TOPS-20 ( DEC, based on TENEX ).

He developed the first production PDP-10 32-bit address ARPAnet NCP for the WAITS operating system, and wrote or rewrote most of the WAITS ARPAnet protocol suite.

** WAITS ( SAIL, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, time-sharing system for DEC PDP-6 and PDP-10, later TOPS-10 )

WAITS alumni at Xerox PARC and elsewhere also played major roles in the developments that led to the Xerox Star, the Apple Macintosh, and the SUN workstation ( later sold by Sun Microsystems ).

The early screen modes of Emacs, for example, were directly inspired by WAITS ' " E " editor -- one of a family of editors that were the first to do real-time editing, in which the editing commands were invisible and where one typed text at the point of insertion / overwriting.

* Stanford PDP-1 Time-sharing System -> SAIL -> WAITS

Also invented there were " bucky bits "-thus, the " Alt " key on every IBM PC is a WAITS legacy.

On November 7, 2006 he also produced Lumines II for PSP, the sequel to the popular original ( this time supplementing the original score with a heavy integration of music videos ), and a shooter / puzzle hybrid game called Every Extend Extra ( a heavily-modified ' synesthesia ' update to an existing PC freeware title, Every Extend ," by indie developer " Omega "), which was released on August 7, 2006.

A heavily-modified M5A1 Stuart was featured in the movie Tank Girl as the eponymous heroine's tank.

The descent module design was reused, in heavily-modified form, by the Voskhod programme.

The Giocattolo was originally based on a heavily-modified Alfa Romeo Sprint with a mid-mounted Alfa V6 engine.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ, which is far more common in the sources than the variant form Abraxas, ΑΒΡΑΞΑΣ ) was a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the “ Great Archon ” ( Gk., megas archōn ), the princeps of the 365 spheres ( Gk., ouranoi ).

The word " allele " is a short form of allelomorph (' other form '), which was used in the early days of genetics to describe variant forms of a gene detected as different phenotypes.

An unusual variant of the Electron was sold by British Telecom Business Systems as the BT Merlin M2105 Communications Terminal.

It was developed by Tony Brooker and Derrick Morris as a variant of the ALGOL programming language, removing some Algol features such as " passing parameters by name " ( which in Algol 60 means passing the address of a short subroutine to recalculate the parameter each time it was mentioned ).

Another variant of that idea was the perforated paper tape.

Although each variant of bridge has its own particular scheme for awarding and accumulating points, all are based upon whether or not the contract for each deal was made or defeated and by how many tricks.

One of the first to appear was Tiny BASIC, a simple BASIC variant designed by Dennis Allison at the urging of Bob Albrecht of the Homebrew Computer Club.

The removal of beef from the recipe in 2004 was not without criticism, with many complaining that the new variant did not taste the same and had a different mouth feel.

One of his most famous teachings was a variant of the Golden Rule sometimes called the " Silver Rule " owing to its negative form:

The symbol of fire was a cue pointing towards transformation, the chemical variant being the symbol delta, which is also the classical symbol for fire.

The variant English name " Bohemian " was used until the late 19th century, reflecting the original English name of the Czech state derived from the Celtic tribe of Boii who inhabited the area since the 4th century BC.

If anything, this meant it was a more energetic variant, probably involving more kicks.

A variant of Coral 66 was developed during the late 1970s / early 1980s by the British GPO, in conjunction with GEC, STC and Plessey, for use on the System X digital telephone exchange control computers, known as PO-CORAL.

Digital Research produced a compatible variant known as DR DOS, which was eventually taken over ( after a buyout of Digital Research ) by Novell, then by Caldera.

In January 2011 a low power variant ( DECT ULE-ultra low energy ) was discussed at the DECT World and CAT-iq Conference with a whitepaper presented by Sitel ( Now Dialog ) Semiconductor.

In the Nynorsk variant of the language, Norsk Allkunnebok ( 10 volumes, 1948 – 1966 ) was the only encyclopedia until the arrival of Wikipedia.

The Etruscan alphabet employs a Euboean variant of the Greek alphabet using the letter digamma and was in all probability transmitted through Pithecusae and Cumae, two Euboean settlements in southern Italy.

In Sicyon, a variant glyph resembling an X ( x14px ) was used in the same function as Corinthian x14px.

In Thespiai ( Boeotia ), a special letter form consisting of a vertical stem with a single rightward-pointing horizontal bar ( x12px ) was used for what was probably a raised variant of in pre-vocalic environments.

The name East Coast Swing was coined initially to distinguish the dance from the street form and the new variant used in the competitive ballroom arena ( as well as separating the dance from West Coast Swing, which was developed in California ).

Again, all of these variant forms were very infrequently used, and when they did occur in American films it was usually in the introductory stages.