8 Jan
2020
8 Jan
'20
9:29 p.m.
On 07/01/2020, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
I don't recall the exact details, but there was
once an editor called "em"
(Editor for Mortals). I remember thinking: what sort of an idiot would
call it that, with the "e" and "r" keys adjacent to each other? I
wonder
how many files were lost that way...
It was a line editor which resembled ex, came from QMC London and was
used on some VAX BSD systems in UK Universities in the early '80s. The
source is online.
As for "rm" typos I'm sure many discovered netnews the same way!
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Steve Mynott <steve.mynott(a)gmail.com>
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