>>> "vi". Editing with "cat" is possible but not very useful. I am not going
>>> to learn "ed".
>>
>> Why?
>
> Simply because. Because I do not like ed.
> I want to have useful and user friendly system. To use ed, only because
> it is the oldest editor, does not make any sense for me.
> I appreciate ed, because of sed, because sed has some similarity to ed
> and is extremely useful as a tool.
> Unix is not about ed, Unix is about unlimited possibilities of adding
> new software , new applications or new editors, it makes Unix beautiful
> that it can develop and not editor ed.If ed were all Unix has, it would
> not survive.
> I hope You accept that someone else can have different favourite
> editors. I prefer vi, or even more vim, which is perfect editor.Of
> course in the case of emulator missing user friendly editor is not a
> problem, because I can edit under Coherent and then build under
> emulator.It is good to have a choice, and Unix offers it.
In 1983 I was using vi. I allowed a friend to use our system to typeset
his companies UNIX manuals, and quickly found that I was having to
share the machine with a dozen troff jobs. Vi, being a program that
ran in raw mode, didn't respond very well on that 68010 10Mhz system.
I was forced to switch to ed. Suddenly I discovered that I had hidden
real UNIX behind all those vi commands. I now had plenty of
mental capacity to use the rest of the tools available.
To really say you understand the spirit of the software tools approach,
you must spend a couple of months just using ed. Today I use acme
mostly, but still find myself using ed for some edits.
I would really encourage you to give it a try. Spend two months
just using ed. You cerntainly should use the editor you feel most
confortable with, but the growing experience will be well worth your while.
Brantley
> OK, so problem is solved.But I suspect it multitasks differently on
> different hardware, unless You use existing V7 x86 implementation. I do
> not know pdp architecture, I suspect it does differ from x86, I mean
> TSS,GDT, TR etc.
These details are hidden under the kernel. The idea of a process with
address space and other contexts are what V7 provides. It's pretty
easy to implement what V7 expects using Intel's paging.
Brantley
Yes I know, my originals were stolen when my car was stolen. I just don't have the time to download a mountain of software right now !
Will
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Andrzej Popielewicz <vasco(a)icpnet.pl>
You need 4 floppies anyway to install Coherent.
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Hello everyone,
I noticed that there were other flavors of Unix (on CD)for sale on the main website. I wondered who I needed to talk with, or send the $10.00 donation to, so I could get the Coherent stuff burned to CD ? Here's the directory I need.
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Other/Coherent/
My floppies with MWC Unix\X Xindows was stolen along with my automobile when I went to Jackson, MS to replace a retiring systems engineer. Anyway, help from anyone to get this done, would be very much appreciated. I have the original manuals, but no MWC Unix to go with it :) Thanks for any help !
Will
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