PDP 11/73 on the Internet

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sun Jun 7 00:57:23 CDT 2009


On 6 Jun 2009 at 14:10, Kirn Gill wrote:

> I wouldn't write any software on the machine, there's nothing useful I
> can think of writing that I would actually deal with using. The fact
> that the local 'vi' doesn't respond to ANSI/VT100 directional keys,
> and only responds to h, j, k, l instead is enough to make me hate it.
> 
> And no, that's not going to motivate me to write a better editor. I
> don't know how. If I did, I would have already done it and the holy
> Emacs vs. Vi war would have been over, both sides having both lost.

Try doing your program development on a keypunch, with a 407 for 80-
80 listing.

Get off my lawn...
Chuck






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