On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Kazuo Teramoto <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- /George V. Reilly [email protected] Twitter: @georgevreilly http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
