i’m trying to recall the name of a language/development environment from the 80s/early 90s (likely from a master’s/doctoral thesis, perhaps that had something to do with pictograms) that was basically a white canvas that you type into where the “characters” were treated as rasters (so it allowed for overtyping characters and erasing program output with the backspace key, etc). basically just a 2d grid of pixels that could be manipulated directly. does this ring a bell to anyone? i’ve been searching through my history and can’t seem to find it… offering 100 internet points to whoever can tell me the name lol

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bingo! thanks @yoshiki! i can’t believe i forgot the name “viewpoint” lol