Bob Drzyzgula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This, I find, is a strong dividing line. By and large > (not with exclusivity, but IME there is certainly a trend) > systems programmers use vi and applications programmers > use emacs.
I've seen more than my share of Unix hackers over the years, and I spot no such trends. Generally, it seems to be a question of what you learned first. > See, I cut my teeth [1] on a Sun 2/120 with a multibus SCSI > adapter, with a 71MB hard drive and a QIC tape drive. This > was running SunOS 1.1 (cf. BSD 4.1), Vax 11/750 for me. Before that I hacked on Tops-20, where the editor of choice was the original emacs written in teco, thus my brain has been wired for Emacs for a quarter century or so. (The stuff I used before that was all line editor oriented and didn't stick in my brain.) > and I can assure you that it didn't have no stinkin' Emacs; It most certainly did, you simply didn't install it. :) > Bill Joy ran the OS development for Sun and anyway, James Gosling's > Unix/C port of Emacs was just starting to make the rounds [2]. By the time of SunOS 1.1, I believe there was Unipress emacs around, as you note. In any case, the Suns I used of that vintage had Emacs available. (I have a genuine Sun 1 sitting in my mom's garage still -- double digit serial number.) > [2] We did at one point buy some licenses for Unipress > Emacs (the commercialized version of Gosling Emacs), but > only a few hardy souls ever forced themselves to make use > of it. Where I was, the '20 heads kind of insisted on Emacsen. Unfortunately, gosmacs didn't have a real extension language, so Gnu Emacs (which arrived quite shortly) was considered a big plus... Perry -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
