Hi,
On Thu, Jul 04 at 03:15, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> > On reason you had ed on early machines and Vi on later can be seen by
> > examining the code size of even modern builds.
>
> Right, given the small amount of RAM on early machines, ed fitted where
> bigger programs couldn't. IIRC vi or its predecessor caused performance
My wife has just reminded me of a couple more reasons for using ed rather
than vi. Vi is in /usr/bin so not available until /usr is mounted.
Ed would run without a /tmp directory, vi won't.
Both are non-problems on modern systems.
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