On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Woodchuck <mar...@pennswoods.net> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Chris Bennett > <ch...@bennettconstruction.biz> wrote: ... >> Did ed come out before or after those clickety-clack paper printing >> terminals? > > All text editors came after teletypes. (Teletypes go back to > the 1920's).
Sure, but ed was definitely used with teletypes back in the day. Consider the first story told by Dennis Ritchie here: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/odd.html in which a side-effect of using ed with a teletype is involved. Philip Guenther
