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Subject: Re: Unix for the PC,AT --- abstract
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Date: Sat, 26-Jan-85 23:46:15 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 26 23:46:15 1985
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Nf-From: ima!johnl    Jan 26 19:09:00 1985

>>The general agreement was that INed (the PC/IX editor) is a piece of
>>garbage, unsuitable for programming.
>This is unfortunate, as the version of INed I used when I was using 
>Interactive Systems, Inc's version of the UNIX* operating system in
>college is far superior to any screen editor I have used since. This
>may indicate that INed was "hacked" to work on the PC/IX environment
>at the expense of much of its functionality and human interface.

No, the version of INed that comes with PC/IX is pretty much the same as
the one that they sell on larger Unix systems, differing only in that it
writes directly to the screen for faster display update.  People who like
vi always seem to have strange overreactions when confronted with any
other editor.  I programmed for years using INed and got lots of work done.


John Levine, Javelin Software, Cambridge MA 617-494-1400
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Levine@YALE.ARPA

PS: Please spare me letters telling me that any editor that doesn't leap
eight spaces when you cursor over a tab is so broken as to be beneath
contempt.