10 Nov
2017
10 Nov
'17
11:26 a.m.
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017, at 15:11, Forrest, Jon wrote:
I remember ~40 students at UCSB trying to run
'vi' on a Vax 780 with
4MB of RAM. Between the lack of memory and the overhead of raw mode,
it wasn't a pretty sight.
There's also likely a difference between typing large amounts of text in
raw mode (as vi entails, especially in insert mode) vs issuing single-
character commands.