Apollo GUI Goodness

I just talked to an old timer about the Legendary Apollo Workstations of the early 80s. Can we get back some of their goodness? They had a GUI environment called DM, before the X server, similar to windows/apple, that had a control window. This window could understand a special language with a power that even now we can only dream about.

Apparently they could do the equivalent of

for w in $(all windows in current desktop):
 search w.contents() for text "foo"

and programmatically pop up a new window showing arbitrary text, etc. This would be extremely useful; has KDE thought of making full python bindings for its KWin? Better yet, give us an interpreter window widget like they had.

They also had a flag to provide a terminal with either a BSD or SYSV unix interface, down to the system calls seen by the user programs. Amazing.