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Episode 99 - The Berkeley Software Distribution

Advent of Computing

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Unix's Editor for Mortals

M required more CPU time to process keystrokes. In raw mode, every button press means the computer has to wake up and do something. No one really wanted to use a line editor. Vi was the same as X; typing Vi at the command line would just load X straight into its visual mode.

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