I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.
From Bill Joy
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.
I just don't like to lose what's in the window.
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
Interleaf is based on the formatting process.
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.
It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.
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