Genera (operating System) - Applications

Applications

Symbolics Genera comes with several applications. Applications are called activities. Some of the activities:

  • Zmacs, an Emacs-like text editor
  • Zmail, a mail reader also providing a calendar
  • File system browser with tools for file system maintenance
  • Lisp Listener with command line interface
  • Document Examiner for browsing documentation
  • Restore Distribution to install software.
  • Distribute Systems, to create software distributions
  • Peek to examine system information (processes, windows, network connections, ...)
  • Debugger
  • Namespace Editor to access informations about objects in the network (users, computers, file systems, ...)
  • Converse, a chat client
  • Terminal
  • Inspector, for browsing Lisp data structures
  • Notifications
  • Frame-Up, for designing user interfaces
  • Flavor Examiner, to examine the classes and methods of the Flavor object-oriented extension to Lisp

The Symbolics Museum from Ralf Möller provides screenshots of those of these activities.

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