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[Tony Austin]

>> If vi was good enough for Kernigan and Ritchie is good enough for me.
>> It's what yer s'posed to use.
>
> Tut, tut, tut.  I believe the program you mean is in fact ed.
>
> Here beginneth the history lesson:
>
> vi was written by Bill Joy at the University of California Berkeley in
> the late 1970's and only really became publicly available as part of the
> Berkeley System Distribution (circa 1982) and certainly was _not_ used
> at AT&T at the time that either UNIX or C was created.
>

Oh dear, I thought I might get away with it.

> GNU/Emacs on the other hand traces it's routes back to the TECO editor
> used at MIT's AI labs in the mid 1970's. It can justly claim to be the
> the piece of software for which the GPL was originally authored and as
> such is the foundation stone on which the free and open source software
> movement was built.
>

Yes, but wasn't it Emacs that Richard Stallman wasted all his efforts on
whne he should have been writing a kernel?  Then we could have had Stallix
instead on Linux!

> Geoff Teale <tealeg at member.fsf.org>
> Free Software Foundation
>


Regards.

Tony Austin
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