Re: non-moan about scrolling

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<4f4f1d34-5f57-4673-96ad-77ff8582c031@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Sak Wathanasin <sw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 25 Apr, 11:49, Tim Streater <tim.strea...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


When I was at SLAC 20 years ago and unix arrived, there were arguments
about which editor should be the standard recommended: vi, ed, emacs,
jove, etc  (is etc an editor? - hmmm).

I have an internal Bell Labs memo that argues the case for "vi" over
"ed": goes into great detail about many extra CPU cycles vi would use
up vs the time saved to "novices". I think it was as late as 1981. I
kept it as I thought it was hilarious - it prob cost them more to
produce that memo than they ever lost in CPU time.

When I was a boy, a CPU cycle was really valuable. Look how they've been
devalued over the years. They're only worth about a five-hundredth of
what they were worth then.
.

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