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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Anderson wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > What is the advantage of having that symlink, then? There surely must 
> > be something.
> Symbolics link can link directories and cross filesystems. Hard links 
> are more efficient, but are limited to files in a single file system.
> > > Anyway, discussion of Unix is OT.
> >
> > But instructive for Linux, too. As it happens, I first installed Linux 
> > at home because I wanted to practice a bit for the Unix I had at the 
> > job (and Linux, too). That was a decade ago...
>
> The changes have been interesting. I remember when Bill Joy, who was at 
> BSD in those days, released vi as shareware. It sure a lot better than 
>  ex.

I think you mean ed.
Most jokes are based on a kernal of truth.
The following joke is ENTIRELY truth:

        http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html


ex and vi have always been the same program.


> I also remember when he released csh, which I never really liked. If
> you ever saw a Lier Siegler ADM-3A terminal, you would know why the 
> cursor keys in vi are j,k,h, and l.

Hell, I worked on LS ADM-3's, 3A's, 3+'s and 5's back in
my youth at Purdue.

>                                  In the time it took me to download 
> the vi source from Berkeley, I could have driven from Cupertino to 
> Berkeley, loaded it on tape, and been back in Cupertino. If you  don't 
> know Bill Joy, he is the mentor for Java and currently works for Sun.

He's also the FOUNDER of Sun.


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