The Internet & our hobby

Pete Turnbull pete at dunnington.plus.com
Fri Oct 23 18:46:38 CDT 2015


On 24/10/2015 00:00, Diane Bruce wrote:
> I have fond memories of our Unix sys admin refusing to install a bloated
> editor.
>
> vi on a PDP-11/45 (v7 Unix)

Ah yes, I remember similar issues.  If you try to run vi (and some other 
things) under 7th Edition set up for a machine like the 11/23, it 
responds "Not, as yet, available for a small machine."  The wording may 
be particular to certain 7th Ed distributions but the puport is common.

-- 
Pete

Pete Turnbull


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