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config/_default/params.yaml

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   # Set to false to disable dark mode menu
   showLightDarkModeMenu: false
 
+# Glossary tooltip configuration
+glossary:
+  # Maximum length of automatically extracted tooltip text.
+  # Custom data-tooltip overrides are used verbatim after normalization.
+  tooltip_max_chars: 200
+
 # Docsy plugins configuration (0.18.0)
 docsy:
   plugins:

content/en/history/glossary/_index.md

@@ -13,76 +13,76 @@ For general computer terminology and lore see [The Hacker's Dictionary](https://
 
 ## Vocabulary and relationships
 
-AltoLisp
+<span id="altolisp"></span>AltoLisp
 : An experimental microcoded implementation of Interlisp on an Alto personal computer.
 
-Break package
+<span id="break-package"></span>Break package
 : The Interlisp subsystem that comprises the debugger (also known as break window) and other debugging facilities. Named after the `BREAK` function and breakpoints.
 
-Briefing Blurb
+<span id="briefing-blurb"></span>Briefing Blurb
 : One of the several documents that introduced Xerox PARC newcomers to the computing and network environment of the Computer Science Laboratory. Written in an upbeat style, their titles followed a pattern that included the expression "Briefing Blurb" such as *The Alto-Dolphin-Dorado Briefing Blurb: Exploring the Ethernet with Mouse and Keyboard* and *The Briefing Blurb: Exploring the Ethernet with Mouse and Keyboard*.
 
-Carol, Fugue, Harmony, Intermezzo, Koto, Lyric, Medley
+<span id="named-releases"></span>Carol, Fugue, Harmony, Intermezzo, Koto, Lyric, Medley
 : Named releases of Interlisp-D.  All are obsolete except Medley.
 
-Common Lisp
+<span id="common-lisp"></span>Common Lisp
 : The subject of a 10-year standards process to converge multiple dialects of the
 Lisp language. Strong influences from many Lisp dialects, including Interlisp.
 
-Common Lisp the Language
+<span id="common-lisp-the-language"></span>Common Lisp the Language
 : Book by Guy Steele with two editions:
 
 - CLtL1 – edition 1, 465 pages
 - CLtL2  – second edition, 1029 pages
 
-Common Lisp dpANS
+<span id="common-lisp-dpans"></span>Common Lisp dpANS
 : The ANSI Standard for Common Lisp.
 
 Starting with the Lyric release of Interlisp-D and then the Medley release, the implementation of Medley included implementations of Common Lisp (CLtL 1) as well as the Interlisp dialect in a single development environment; this was made possible by using the (Common Lisp) “package” feature to allow both dialects to be intermixed.
 
-Dfasl
+<span id="dfasl"></span>Dfasl
 : A compiled form of Medley Interlisp files with the extension ".dfasl".
 
-Display
+<span id="display"></span>Display
 : Denotes a program or system with a Graphical User Interface or a full screen character interface, as opposed to a line oriented interface like a teletype. In expressions like "display oriented editor" or "display editor".
 
-DLISP
+<span id="dlisp"></span>DLISP
 : By Warren Teitelman: a first attempt at building a “Display” (GUI) with Interlisp running on MAXC (a PDP-10 clone) connected by Ethernet to a Xerox Alto acting 
 as a graphics terminal.
 
-Dorado Lisp
+<span id="dorado-lisp"></span>Dorado Lisp
 : The reimplementation of the AltoLisp microcode on the Dorado – a research prototype.
 
-Fugue
+<span id="fugue"></span>Fugue
 : An obsolete named release of Interlisp-D.
 
-Harmony
+<span id="harmony"></span>Harmony
 : An obsolete named release of Interlisp-D.
 
-Intermezzo
+<span id="intermezzo"></span>Intermezzo
 : An obsolete named release of Interlisp-D.
 
-Interlisp
-: A GitHub “organization” with ~20 repositories, see <https://github.com/Interlisp>
+<span id="interlisp"></span>Interlisp
 : Both a language and, in some cases, the implementation of that language. Usually used with some other wording or refinement.
+: A GitHub “organization” with ~20 repositories, see <https://github.com/Interlisp>
 
-Interlisp: The Language and its usage
+<span id="interlisp-the-language-and-its-usage"></span>Interlisp: The Language and its usage
 : A book by Steve Kaisler which describes Interlisp of the 1970s & 80s.
 
-Interlisp.org
+<span id="interlisp-org"></span>Interlisp.org
 : The project's Internet domain name, used for its websites and email addresses.
 
 - <https://interlisp.org>  – the address of the main web site
 - <https://online.interlisp.org> – the address of a service that lets you run Medley
 - <info@interlisp.org>             - the project's general information email address
 
-Interlisp-10
+<span id="interlisp-10"></span>Interlisp-10
 : The first implementation of Interlisp for the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-10 / Tenex.
 
-Interlisp-360
+<span id="interlisp-360"></span>Interlisp-360
 : Implemention of Interlisp for the IBM-360.
 
-Interlisp-D
+<span id="interlisp-d" data-tooltip="What Dorado Lisp became. The D stood for both “Display” and “D-machine”; an implementation of Interlisp, its programming tools, and a Lisp-based operating system for D-machines."></span>Interlisp-D
 : What Dorado Lisp became.  The D stood for both “Display” and “D-machine”.  An implementation of
 
 - Interlisp the language
@@ -94,80 +94,80 @@ Interlisp-D
   personal workstation. Each D-machine had its own microcode with different
   configurations and micro-instructions.
 
-Interlisp-VAX
+<span id="interlisp-vax"></span>Interlisp-VAX
 : Implementation of Interlisp for Digital Equipment Corporation VAX systems.
 
-Koto
+<span id="koto"></span>Koto
 : An obsolete named release of Interlisp-D.
 
-Lcom
+<span id="lcom"></span>Lcom
 : Used as a file ending, xxx.lcom, for compiled Medley files.
 
-Lyric
+<span id="lyric"></span>Lyric
 : An obsolete named release of Interlisp-D.
 
-Medley
+<span id="medley"></span>Medley
 : The final named release of Interlisp-D.  
 
-Medley 1.0, Medley 2.01, Medley 3.5 numbered releases of Interlisp-D
+<span id="medley-numbered-releases"></span>Medley 1.0, Medley 2.01, Medley 3.5 numbered releases of Interlisp-D
 : At some point the name Interlisp-D was retired and Medley used to name the software.
 
-Maiko
+<span id="maiko"></span>Maiko
 : An implementation of the functions of the D-machine microcode, but written in C for the
       Sun Microsystems SPARC processor workstation, initially developed by
        Fuji Xerox.  Subsequently ported to little-endian processors and other operating systems.
 
-Package
+<span id="package"></span>Package
 : The term Package has several different meanings depending on the context:
 
 - Informally, a collection of utilities or submodule in Interlisp (the "break package", q.v.; the "file package", a facility for managing code changes; the "record package", a record data type; and so on)
 - A feature of Commmon Lisp symbol support; the package system allows the combining of Interlisp symbols (written with `IL:` prefix) and Common Lisp symbols (written with a `LISP:` prefix).
 
-SDL
+<span id="sdl"></span>SDL
 : Structured Design Language.
 
-Sysout
+<span id="sysout"></span>Sysout
 : A file containing the saved state of Interlisp virtual memory.
 
-X11
+<span id="x11"></span>X11
 : The X Window System.
 
 ### Organizations
 
-BBN
+<span id="bbn"></span>BBN
 : [Bolt, Beranek, and Newman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon_BBN), a Cambridge, Mass. consulting firm which sponsored the
       creation of BBN Lisp, Interlisp's immediate ancestor, as well as the Tenex operating system.
 
-Xerox PARC or just PARC
+<span id="parc"></span>Xerox PARC or just PARC
 : Palo Alto Research Center, which continued in collaboration with BBN on (renamed) Interlisp. PARC developed the Alto and Dorado.  Now part of SRI International.
 
-SRI International
+<span id="sri-international"></span>SRI International
 : A non-profit scientific R & D institute, headquertered in Menlo Park, California.
 
-Xerox Electro-Optical Systems (XEOS)
+<span id="xeos"></span>Xerox Electro-Optical Systems (XEOS)
 : A former Xerox division supporting government customers.
 
-Xerox Artificial Intelligence Systems (XAIS)
+<span id="xais"></span>Xerox Artificial Intelligence Systems (XAIS)
 : The former Xerox division working to commercialize Xerox workstations running Interlisp-D.
 
-Rank Xerox
+<span id="rank-xerox"></span>Rank Xerox
 : Xerox's European subsidiary, a joint venture of Xerox Corp. and the Rank Organization, which sold Interlisp-D workstations in Europe.
 
-Fuji Xerox
+<span id="fuji-xerox"></span>Fuji Xerox
 : Xerox's Japanese subsidiary, owned jointly by Rank Xerox and Fujifilm Corp., responsible for selling and supporting Interlisp-D systems in Japan.
 
-Envos
+<span id="envos"></span>Envos
 : Company founded in 198x to take on the Lisp business from Xerox. Closed within 10 months and folded back into Xerox.
 
-Venue
+<span id="venue"></span>Venue
 : Company founded by John Sybalsky, former Xerox and Envos employee, which obtained a license to create and distribute derivative works of Maiko and Medley.
 
-Medley Interlisp Project
+<span id="medley-interlisp-project"></span>Medley Interlisp Project
 : Began late 2010’s with Nick Briggs getting Maiko to run on macOS.  The group expanded and began holding weekly online meetings in 2020.
 Subsequently ported Maiko (and therefore Medley) to Linux, Windows, and other operating system.  Maintains a mailing list for developers and interested users,
 sponsors the maintenance of an exhaustive bibliography and the very website where you're reading this.
 
-InterlispOrg
+<span id="interlisporg"></span>InterlispOrg
 : A [California-registered](https://rct.doj.ca.gov/Verification/Web/Details.aspx?result=c7aa8cb2-16ec-458a-be56-41f963365258) non-profit organization  (DBA Interlisp.org) Established
         August 2021. 501c3  EIN 87-2528093  California registered charity CT0278267.
         The Board of Directors consists of Larry Masinter, President; Ron Kaplan, Treasurer; and Herb Jellinek, Secretary.