OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/25491/Bill_Joy_s_Greatest_Gift_to_Man_the_vi_Editor Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 20 May 2013 22:39:23 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com This from 2003 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502619 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502619 Woo! A (more than) seven-year-old interview largely quoting remarks made thirteen years ago!

"OS," sure. "News," not so much.Edited 2012-01-09 17:15 UTC Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cmchittom) Comments RE: This from 2003 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502626 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502626
Woo! A (more than) seven-year-old interview largely quoting remarks made thirteen years ago!

"OS," sure. "News," not so much.


WAAAAAAAH!
WAAAAAAAH!
WAAAAAAAH!

Since I hadn't read this article, and I have never even been to the Reg's front page, I would never have read this. But, it got posted here. Today. So I read it.
I've got nothing to complain about. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Drumhellar) Comments RE: This from 2003 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502633 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502633 I'm sorry for distracting you from all of the more up-to-date and timely Bill Joy/vi news. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David) Comments RE[2]: This from 2003 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502637 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502637 Nobody really uses his implementation anymore, BSD's tend to ship with nvi and GNU-land likes ln vim emacs. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Brynet) Comments RE[3]: This from 2003 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502641 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502641 True, but wouldn't you say that decisions that he made to make vi perform adequately over a 300 baud modem still flavor the modern implementations of vi today? Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David) Comments RE[2]: This from 2003 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502646 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502646 Good for you: I'm glad you got something out of it. Still, if you were really interested in Bill Joy or the history of vi, you could have found this via $SEARCH_ENGINE

Most people, though, expect a site with "news" in the name to have news. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cmchittom) Comments RE[3]: This from 2003 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502661 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502661 I use his implementation. (I really do). Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gumoz) Comments Old news but I enjoyed it http://www.osnews.com/thread?502666 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502666 In general, I do not like old re-posted news. I had not seen this article though and did enjoy reading it along with my Chinese food.

I would have to say TCP/IP is more important but I have not used NFS or Java a all this week. I used 'vi' (well vim) twice this morning.

EDIT: I realize that Bill Joy did not invent TCP/IP. He is credited with writing the BSD implementation though and this code may have worked it's way into Windows.Edited 2012-01-09 22:38 UTC Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tanishaj) Comments vi should be in every technician's tollbox http://www.osnews.com/thread?502670 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502670 Ah, vi. Hard to learn, but good to know. Even today, vi exists on most systems. Only some of the embedded stuff (mobile phones) has exchanged it for nano or some other newfangled stuff.Edited 2012-01-09 23:04 UTC Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tingo) Comments vim > vi http://www.osnews.com/thread?502702 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502702 vim forever Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tuma324) Comments Ahhh the days... http://www.osnews.com/thread?502724 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502724 ...I remember when I got a 9600 baud modem and thought "this is the life!" ;) Didn't use vi tho'... VMS had edlin... Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tuishimi) Comments RE: This from 2003 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502829 http://www.osnews.com/thread?502829
Woo! A (more than) seven-year-old interview largely quoting remarks made thirteen years ago!

"OS," sure. "News," not so much.

This story has recently had a revival on a number of news sites, not least Hacker News.

If you have a problem with old stories getting bumped, then perhaps you should take it up with the rest of the internet. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Laurence) Comments RE: vi should be in every technician's tollbox http://www.osnews.com/thread?503087 http://www.osnews.com/thread?503087
Ah, vi. Hard to learn, but good to know.

A hard Editor is good to find. (Banana jokes deferred.) Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbergman27) Comments