Hi Ralph
Had a few minutes earlier so looked at the partions on the PC, details are:-
sda1 Ext4 Mount= / size 25GB flag= boot
sda2 " -- size 72GB label=
Homebackup
sda3 " Mount= /Home size 196GB
sda4 swap
On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 15:16, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> That CP/M manual also has a list of control characters, page 20 of 26.
> Ctrl-L and Ctrl-Z I understand. Ctrl-C is ‘system reboot’. Seems a bit
> severe. At least the Break key was out on a corner on the BBC Micro,
> Sun's keyboards, etc.
>
Hi Bob,
> On reason you had ed on early machines and Vi on later can be seen by
> examining the code size of even modern builds.
Right, given the small amount of RAM on early machines, ed fitted where
bigger programs couldn't. IIRC vi or its predecessor caused performance
problems on some machin
Hi,
On reason you had ed on early machines and Vi on later can be seen by
examining the code size of even modern builds. Ignoring common OS
libraries you have:
ed
textdata bss dec hex filename
4350911442248 46901b735 /bin/ed
nvi
textdata bss dec
Hi Tim,
> PeterMerchant wrote:
> > edlin on DOS boxes.
I've never used Edlin, and hardly used DOS/Windows, but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edlin suggests it's far inferior to its
predecessor ed(1). No regular expressions, no symbolic names, ‘marks’,
for lines, no ‘global’ command, e.g. ‘g/foo[
Incidentally, a pair of floppy disk drives with PSU, interface card and CP/M
cost around £800 in 1983 - £2288 today according to
https://www.inflationtool.com/british-pound
Tim
So My BBC Micro model B in 1983 (£399) would cost £ 1144 today. That's a lot
of money but I am not sorry that w
On 03/07/2019 21:01, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote:
I remember ed. I don't think that I have used it for about 30 years and I can't
remember what OS that was on. I did use ed, but also edlin on DOS boxes.
I remember reading the CP/M ed manual in horror in the early 1980's (on a
home-built
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