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From: jac@paul.rutgers.edu (Jonathan A. Chandross)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: vi under minix
Message-ID: <Jul.18.22.24.39.1989.29326@paul.rutgers.edu>
Date: 19 Jul 89 02:24:39 GMT
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peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
> If anyone wants to do a *real* port of vi to MINIX, a good place to start
> would be the Software Tools version of 'ed'. After all, the real 'vi' got
> started with enhancements to the real 'ed'.

Actually, Bill Joy (and Mark Horton, I think) started out using ed, but
soon abandoned it when it became clear that it wouldn't work.  They wrote
ex instead, and put vi on top of it.  This is, reportedly, no ed code left
in vi/ex.


Jonathan A. Chandross
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