From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 25 02:21:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA28934 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 02:21:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA28913 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 02:21:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fewtch@serv.net) Received: from desktop-pentium (dialup447.serv.net [207.207.70.48]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA12838; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 02:21:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980625022025.0080ed80@mx.serv.net> X-Sender: fewtch@mx.serv.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 02:20:25 -0700 To: David Wolfskill From: Tim Gerchmez Subject: re: vi Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806171614.JAA05162@pau-amma.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:14 AM 6/17/98 -0700, you wrote: >Uhhmmm.... :-) > >No. vi isn't "original". It was written (essentially) by Bill Joy, >while he was at UC Berkeley, as a "glass TTY" front-end for ex. You didn't state the year, but if it was pre-1980, I think the term "original" is descriptive enough. It certainly has become widely used and is considered a "default" or a "standard" editor, if you don't like the term "original." >I suspect that you don't really want to think too hard about what Ken, >Dennis, Brian, Joe, Rob, & the rest of the Bell Labs gang used to >actually write the original code.... Actually, you're right on the money there. The fact is (and this may disturb you a little), I don't give a rat's hang in hell about Unix's history. I honestly don't care. I have ZERO interest. I wasn't involved in any of it, and it has nothing to do with me. Perhaps knowing more about it would help me learn Unix faster (and so I may look into it a little for that reason only), but from an personal interest standpoint I have absolutely none. I'd rather sit and watch cobwebs up in the attic. >As for UNIX being "stuck in the 1960s"... well, please note that the >UNIX "epoch" -- time zero, so to speak -- is midnight (0000 hrs.) 01 >January, 1970 GMT ("UTC" for folks less old-fashioned than I). I was close enough. Anyway, I was 6 years old in 1970 and cared more about the cookie jar than I did about computing. I didn't enter the scene (never touched a computer keyboard) at all until 1983, when the "home computer wars" were just starting. Remember those? Now, THAT period of time interests me, because I had some personal involvement in it. I'm just not much of a history buff, sorry. I've always gotten poor grades in history classes in school due to lack of interest. -- My web site starts at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html - lots of goodies for everyone, have a look if you have the time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message