[TUHS] early Unix terminals

[Ron Natalie via TUHS]

The same argument was made about having to punch cards and submit them 
by batch, but I think people got over it.

Oddly, I stuck with “ed” for a long time (until the first emacs variants 
hit BRL).    I never really learned vi.   If there was no emacs on a 
machine, I used ed.   If there was only vi, then I ran it in “ex” mode.
You did get good at regular expressions.   My employees were always 
amazed at how fast I could edit documents with only ed.



------ Original Message ------
>From "George Michaelson via TUHS" <tuhs at tuhs.org>
To "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <TUHS at tuhs.org>
Date 5/21/2026 6:24:41 AM
Subject [TUHS] Re: early Unix terminals

>Editing on paper output devices had it's upsides in terms of how you had to
>think about what you were doing.
>
>I liked using the decwriter with a line mode editor.