On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 18:43:05 +0100 Barry <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At Berkeley university they liked emacs but on the VAX 11/780 only > one user could be supported on BSD. The problem was found to be the > I/O rate from single char input and echoing. > > In response to the need to support 30 students on the VAX they needed > to drop the I/O rate. This resulted in VI and matching kernel > terminal ioctl changes to allow lines of text to be input as a single > I/O. There is a usenix paper that describes this in detail that came > out a long long time ago. > > Now you have an army of graduates that know VI and use it at work. > The rest is history… > > But when I worked at DEC we used Goslings emacs on VMS and had enough > hardware to support emacs. I still maintain it as Barry’s Emacs. I first encountered UNIX after years of using VMS, IBM mainframes, and a plethora of personal computers. They ALL had editors better than vi. Who writes an editor where the arrow keys don’t work! I use emacs -nw or mg when I need a terminal editor. Jim _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
