Vintage Computer Festival wrote: Hehe. I'm not worried about it. I'm a BOFH with a full set of Intercontinental LARTs. :) vi forever! <dives off stage> g.

Speaking of vi, I have something neat here in front of me... Bill Joy's personal copy of the vi 2.6 source with 2.7 changes hand annotated. I got it from him at Berkeley in the early 80's not long before he left his 'permanent grad student' status to co-found Sun. My hazy recollection is that I asked him for the sources of ex/vi and of the Berkeley Pascal compiler (that he also wrote) and he pulled it off the shelf and handed it to me. As a lowly undergrad I didn't have online access to stuff like that, or at least things weren't as findable as they are today. Obligatory historical notes: most of the public terminals at UCB then were ADM-3's, almost dumb as rocks, thus the modal ASCII command set and slow serial optimized screen updates. The screen module was pulled outby Ken Arnold, one of my classmates, cleaned up and became curses, motivated almost entirely by the needs of rogue and mille bourne.