From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: random832@fastmail.com (Random832)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 00:26:30 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] pre-more pager?
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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.