Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 10 November 2005 02:30 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Thursday 10 November 2005 18:52, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 November 2005 12:14 pm, Allen wrote:
> > > Weird. They had to use Assembler for pretty much everything. They used
> > > those processors and.... I don't even know which OS, but they had a lot
> > > of Unix.
> >
> > Probably device drivers, but Unix has always been mostly C (actually the
> > original Unix was not, but it was rewritten in C when they invented C).
> >
> > > He told me back when he did this that Vi would only show one line at a
> > > time and you'd have like thousands of lines of code and have to check
> > > something a few lines up so you'd have to give the command to view it
> > > up in that area or something.
> >
> > I worked on Xenix in 1981 using a Heath/Zenith ASCII terminal and VI did
> > full screen.
>
> ed does one line at a time. vi is ed with multiline display, more or less

Thumb switches to enter the start code to read the key punched tape 1979.