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McIlroy:
> [vi] was so excesssive right from the start that I refused to use it.
> Sam was the first screen editor that I deemed worthwhile, and I
> still use it today.

Paulsen:
> my sam build is more than 2 times bigger than Gunnar Ritter's vi
> (or Steve Kirkendall's elvis) and even bigger than Bram Moolenaar's vim.

% wc -c /bin/vi bin/sam bin/samterm
1706152 /bin/vi
 112208 bin/sam
 153624 bin/samterm
These mumbers are from Red Hat Linux.
The 6:1 discrepancy is understated because
vi is stripped and the sam files are not.
All are 64-bit, dynamically linked.