On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 2:35 PM James Szinger <jszinger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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! > Someone with a serial terminal with no arrow keys, or arrow keys that did not work consistently between differing terminal types. And the design intent was to allow one to hit esc and use hjkl as arrow keys without removing your hands from the home keys so one could continue touch typing. _______________________________________________ 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
