From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,PLING_QUERY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 6915454d for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 03:02:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 8D21F9BA15; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:02:13 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEDDB946B9; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:01:58 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 5B84E946B9; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:01:56 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2DD993DBB for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:01:55 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 7895335E134; Fri, 11 Oct 2019 20:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 20:01:55 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: ricercar@lycos.com Message-ID: <20191012030155.GG3558@mcvoy.com> References: <20191010205546.GA29154@minnie.tuhs.org> <3d9ff257-8505-8792-abcf-fd44846b58f1@lycos.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3d9ff257-8505-8792-abcf-fd44846b58f1@lycos.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [TUHS] What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 09:41:07PM -0500, ricercar@lycos.com wrote: > I first started using emacs. I have also grown to appreciate ed, though I > learned that quite a bit later. If you were on some 300 baud dial up modem, ed made tons of sense. You had a mental picture of the file in your head, you didn't need to see all of it in real time, that was wasteful. ed let you see as much as you needed and as little as was productive. And it worked without termcap. ed rocks, it's yet another little program that does what it needs to do and no more. ed was like a lot of stuff that Bell Labs did that dated back to the days when getting a print out took a day or so. pic(1) is a great example of that. I *love* pic because I can look at the input to pic and I can see what it will look like. xfig and friends are not so much.