On Wed, 14 Sep 2016, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > Just so it was clear - that was a joke posting I was reposting from > 1991....not intended to start a flame war about who has the most history > :)
Chris, I knew that and did not intend to provoke a contest but only to extend the idea by comparing hardware then and now. > I have both written an ed clone and used ed, but gosh, I sure enjoy using > vim and even emacs a lot more! I wrote my dissertation using HP's TDP (Text and Document Processor), a line-oriented editor, like vi. I'd be lines ahead looking at my handwritten text, look up at the screen, and discover that 90% was truncated because I had reached the end of the line and didn't press the carriage return key. After a few hundred pages of this I learned to dispise line editors. Hence, _my_ preference for emacs. :-) Oh, it was also fun standing by the Diablo electronic typewriter and hand feeding bond paper one sheet at a time as TDP sent pages to be printed. Yawn! Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug