Hardware experiences?

[Colin McGregor]

--- "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, James Knott wrote:
> >
> > You mean there are some people who actually don't
> need a 64 bit version
> > of vi?  ;-)
> 
>     Or any version, for that matter.

Now, now... I have dealt with old Sun boxes where the
only editor awailable was vi. So vi has its place, for
things like editing network configuration files, so
you can go out on to the Internet and download a nice
text editing program :-) .

In other words I see vi as being like the World War II
FP-45 Liberator pistol, a REALLY cheap and REALLY
nasty pistol that was given out to resistance groups
in Europe and Asia. The standing "joke" about the
FP-45 was that you only used it to kill someone with a
better gun and then threw the FP-45 away... With vi,
use it to get something better and then ...

Colin McGregor 

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