"Robert G. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note that Bob and I started out on systems with far less than 100 MB > of DISK and perhaps a MB of system memory on a fat SERVER in the > latter 80's. And the P(o)DP(eople) made do with even less in the > early 80's.
My first machine was a PDP-8. 4k of 12 bit words of genuine magnetic core memory, and two DECtape units with some small amount of storage (I can't remember, but I think it was on the order of 100k). I believe there are icons on my modern desktop that take up more space than that whole machine had for core. > vi back then was little more than a shell on ed IIRC It was (for nvi, is) the visual mode of ex, which is/was an extended line editor in the lineage of ed, kind of an extended ed. 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
