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.