Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:14:58 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: re: vi Message-ID: <199806171614.JAA05162@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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>Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:24:12 -0700
>From: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net>
>No. The simple fact is, I don't want to right now, and don't yet see the
>point in doing so. Personally, I believe this thread got heated because I
>basically insulted an original, holy Unix text editor....
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.
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....
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).
:-),
david
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