Holy mackerel! Don't you ever compare ed (a line editor that could basically do everything except making coffee) with edlin (a line editor that could basically do nothing). True :-) Ed was designed with a teletype in mind (the pre-crt stage of computing) Ken Thompson et. al. built Unix with teletype interface, and ed was the default line editor on Unix. Glass terminals (simply glass tty) were just starting to come out in the late '60s. By the time Bill Joy started writing vi, VT100 type terminals were common. Termcap and curses were really very
On Friday 11 November 2005 12:24 pm, Jos van Kan wrote:
powerful features that Unix had where other proprietary OSs at the time
were tied to a limited number of terminals.
it was interesting that when the PC came out, it really had no support for
color or any of the more interesting stuff that its competitors, like
Apple, had. I think IBM had the view of the drab corporate desktop where
noone wanted color or graphics.
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Jerry Feldman