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From: lewis@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Pierre Lewis)
Subject: Re: Unix vs. Mainframe editors
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.143412.14835@scrumpy@.bnr.ca>
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 14:34:12 GMT

In article <22860@oolong.la.locus.com>, jfr@locus.com (Jon Rosen) writes:

|> >And I, for one, have always liked XEDIT and think it's certainly a very
|> >powerful editor (it can sort a file much faster that sort(1) on a Sparc).
|>
|> HOLD EVERYTHING!!!!
|>
|> This comment is completely out of context!!! (not just in this reprint
|> but in the original posting...)

I agree, it is completely out of context, but it really surprised me
recently and I couldn't refrain from mentioning this anecdote.  Maybe I
should have put more brackets around it!  Of course the 3090 is much faster
that the Sparc, but then there were at the time hundreds of users on it, and
only one user on the Sparc.  And this was an editor sort as opposed to a
specialized tool on Unix.  It was more than 10 times as fast.  I still think
it's not bad even if completely out of context (sort not even a basic editor
feature).

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Pierre LEWIS
Internet:            bnrmtl!lewis@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU