From: random832@fastmail.com (Random832)
Subject: [TUHS] pre-more pager?
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 00:26:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1510291590.2892072.1167822088.7FEE6D8C@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0df737f5-f356-7252-2404-1acc43e52adb@gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017, at 15:11, Forrest, Jon wrote:
> I remember ~40 students at UCSB trying to run 'vi' on a Vax 780 with
> 4MB of RAM. Between the lack of memory and the overhead of raw mode,
> it wasn't a pretty sight.
There's also likely a difference between typing large amounts of text in
raw mode (as vi entails, especially in insert mode) vs issuing single-
character commands.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-10 5:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-08 20:02 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-08 20:11 ` Forrest, Jon
2017-11-10 5:26 ` Random832 [this message]
2017-11-10 7:31 ` Otto Moerbeek
2017-11-08 20:18 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-08 20:28 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 22:47 ` Dave Horsfall
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2017-11-09 16:19 Norman Wilson
2017-11-09 16:48 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-09 17:19 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-09 18:15 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-09 18:26 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-09 13:33 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-08 22:58 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-08 22:02 Paul Ruizendaal
2017-11-08 22:20 ` Will Senn
2017-11-08 20:28 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-08 19:23 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-08 18:54 Will Senn
2017-11-08 18:59 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-08 19:06 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 19:31 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2017-11-08 22:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-08 22:47 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 23:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-09 4:38 ` Will Senn
2017-11-09 13:18 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-09 14:29 ` Will Senn
2017-11-09 20:53 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-10 0:15 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-10 2:14 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-08 19:12 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-08 19:22 ` Random832
2017-11-08 21:18 ` Will Senn
2017-11-08 21:59 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 22:00 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-08 22:18 ` Will Senn
2017-11-09 2:01 ` Steve Johnson
2017-11-09 2:16 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-11-08 19:29 ` Forrest, Jon
2017-11-08 19:43 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 21:03 ` Mark Green
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