On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:50:59PM -0500, Lonn Dugan wrote:
Since earliest days of Unix -- vi was/is a screen editor; ed, a line at a time tool. (see edlin in earliest PC DOS) Wouldn't you love to have earliest edition of Brian W. Kernighan/Rob Pike "The Unix Programming Environment" or Brian W. Kernighan/Dennis M. Ritchie "The C Programming Language"
Actually when Unix was created Vi didn't exist. When BSD started working on it, they made Vi. -Allen
Somewhere around here is a Ken Thompson masterpiece - and to clear up an earlier item: Ken Thompson, in 1969, began writing the Unix kernel (a small general purpose time sharing-system) on salvaged DEC PDP-7 store room junk. By 1970, C development was started on a PDP-11, and by 1973, the kernel had been rewritten in C by Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson and compiled with Dennis M. Ritchie's C Compiler. In 1974 Unix was first licensed to universities "for educational purposes."
Lonn C. Dugan
-----Original Message----- From: Allen [mailto:gorebofh@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 22:05 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Gnome disappointment
Allen wrote:
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:50:04PM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 11:01 -0500, Allen wrote:
What you do the small speed boost may not matter, but in the 80s my teacher was writing code for the 68K processor and you couldn't use C for
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:21:28PM -0500, James Knott wrote: that.
Not sure what you mean here? It was and is certainly possible to use C on the 68000. Just one example was a machine called the 'Unicorn' from a company here in the UK called Torch. It not only ran a C compiler, it's native operating system was Unix.
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.
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.
Perhaps he didn't know what he was talking about. Wouldn't be the first or last time that happened.
Mmmmm, usually I'd say yes to this, but this guy is one of the most intelligent computer people I've ever met. He has like no arrogance about him, but he knows he's not an idiot either. We get along good and I should check with him about when the dates were where Vi did this supposedly.
I know Vi is "Visual" ed, but the first versions of it maybe did only do one line at a time. Not positive about that though.
-Allen.
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