In concept it kinda reminds me of Oberon (I wish those had succeeded) though the integration between the kernel and the language (elisp) isn't anything like as tight.<p>For anyone who hasn't seen it (and a chance to look at the path not taken).<p><a href="https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon1992.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon1992.pdf</a>
There's also always this, which I found pretty cool and somewhat functional as well, though it goes beyong the bare "emacs on a kernel" concept:<p><a href="http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager....</a><p>I one had a VM at a workplace where all I had were outdated hardware specs and outdated versions of Windows with few administrative privileges. It helped to retain some sanity. For some time.
PJB has become a bit (too little for my taste) of a persona non grata in the common lisp world (which has a large overlap with the emacs world) ever since it was suggested and so far not disproved (names match, nicknames match) that he's the person behind <a href="https://twitter.com/ogamita" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/ogamita</a><p>edit: To make it more precise, full names are identical and <a href="http://www.informatimago.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.informatimago.com/index.html</a> links to <a href="http://pjb.ogamita.org" rel="nofollow">http://pjb.ogamita.org</a> which uses the same name (ogamita) as that twitter account.