The version of ex that added visual mode and soon was invoked just as "vi" WAS
mostly built Bill Joy, but vi pre-dated Sun, and was originally released (I
think I remember correctly) as part of BSD Unix circa 1977, 1978. Sun came
along in 1982.
Of course Sun helped popularize vi by including it as a free editor in their
clone of UNIX, while emacs suffered under licensing fees.
Maybe we can fund a pair of tombstones for Sequent and Sun versions of UNIX. (I
always loved Sequent's best, mostly because it came with bp that made is
possible to repair "fuzzy" files that weren't actually reloads before Oracle
implemented "end backup" and had a superior volume manager sooner for allowing
multiplexed disk slices. But Sun was a neck and neck second.)
DEFINITELY keep that book.
mwf
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Subject: Re: Solaris OEL?
On 12/03/2016 04:23 AM, Tim Hall wrote:
Hi.
IMHO the real question is, is Sparc making any money?
