Re: Emacs vs. vi: # of users?

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From: Andrew M. Boardman
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1992 20:58

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bzs@world.std.com, questioning my questionable ramblings:
>>Doesn't matter; ed is what was there before vi.  Although emacs predates
>>ed, ed was around first on unix boxes...
>
>Actually, I don't believe that emacs pre-dates ed.

Actually, I believe you're right.  I really should drag this foot out of
my mouth...

(I'm assuming that /bin/ed was in the earliest Unixes from the early
seventies, which seems like a perfectly reasonable assumption...)
(Emacs, on the other hand, not having hit the scene until '75, is a
relative latecomer...)

andrew

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