From: otto@drijf.net (Otto Moerbeek)
Subject: [TUHS] pre-more pager?
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:31:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171110073102.GK11221@colo.drijf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1510291590.2892072.1167822088.7FEE6D8C@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:26:30AM -0500, Random832 wrote:
> 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.
I also had to do programming assugnment on an overloaded VAX.
Luckily you can switch to ex mode in vi. ex is much easier on the
macine since it doesn't work in raw mode.
-Otto
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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
2017-11-10 7:31 ` Otto Moerbeek [this message]
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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