For many years it was said that the single most thing that held Unix back was the lack of a decent editor, simply they were all supremely lousy. I've never heard that before. Since I first used Unix 25 years ago, I found a number of decent editors, including vi and EMACS, but... I don't think the lack of a decent editor ever help Unix back. The main
On Saturday 12 November 2005 9:35 pm, Sid Boyce wrote:
thing that held it back was the AT&T pricing. While a 2-user license was
fairly low, it was still expensive, and the muti-user licenses were very
expensive. There were a few PC based Unixes in then 1980s (including SCO
(classic)). But another thing that held it back was the lack of a good GUI,
and we now have them.
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Jerry Feldman