That was funny.... I remember edlin.... sigh... it was worse then ed! 110 baud... that is old... I think we used 300 baud on the AMOS workstations, and even the old phone-coupler modem (yes, from the '70s) was faster than that!
Jamie On Tuesday 05 March 2002 19:22, you wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:32:14PM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: > >Found this today and thought it was cute... > > Ed, man! !man ed > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick J. LoPresti) > Subject: The True Path (long) > Date: 11 Jul 91 03:17:31 GMT > Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs,alt.slack > > When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi > *and* Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like, > 'C-h for help' and '"foo" File is read only'. So I use the editor > that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time. > > Ed, man! !man ed > > ED(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual ED(1) > > NAME > ed - text editor > > SYNOPSIS > ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ] > DESCRIPTION > Ed is the standard text editor. > --- > > Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first > alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed > because it's ED! > > "Ed is the standard text editor." > > And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed > -rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs > > Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. > Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog > message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; > and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!! > > "Ed is the standard text editor." > > Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed: > > golem$ ed > > ? > help > ? > ? > ? > quit > ? > exit > ? > bye > ? > hello? > ? > eat flaming death > ? > ^C > ? > ^C > ? > ^D > ? > > --- > Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is > generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm > the novice with verbosity. > > "Ed is the standard text editor." > > Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all. > > ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED > AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS > BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN > SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!! > > When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless > help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! > Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! > ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!! > > TEXT EDITOR. > > When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their > "edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely > you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard. > > Ed is for those who can *remember* what they are working on. If you > are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should > not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE > SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE > FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!! > > ?
