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> On 2011-12-16T13:26:22, Taylor Hedberg wrote:
> >Sven Guckes, Fri 2011-12-16 @ 14:42:05+0100:
> >> "because". this happened long before vim -
> >> when it has been "vi". so.. around 1976. Oh, Joy!
> >
> >If I remember correctly, Bill Joy's terminal had no cursor keys, but the
> >H, J, K, and L keys had arrows painted on them, hence the choice of
> >movement commands for vi.
>
> Exactly. He used an ADM-3A [1]. The ADM-3A keyboard had an escape key
> more close to the home row too.
>
> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lear_Siegler_ADM3A
I used SOS -- a line editor without the charm of Ex -- on a 1200-baud
ADM-3A for my first two years of university in '83-'85. We had access
to the VAX-11/780 for three hours in the morning in a dingy terminal
room in the basement. For my final two years, we were promoted to the
9600-baud terminals upstairs with 24-hour access. It was there that I
encountered vi running on Eunice, a Unix emulator for VAX/VMS and it
was there that I formed my lifelong vi habit.
I don't miss any of those damn terminals.
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/George V. Reilly george@reilly.org Twitter: @georgevreilly
http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech
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