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1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected

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414 points henry_flower | 1 comments | 19 Feb 25 21:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.991s | source
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dataf3l ◴[19 Feb 25 22:56 UTC] No.43108825[source]▶
I love this!

first time I see people use 'ed' for work!!!

I wonder who else has to deal with ed also... recently I had to connect to an ancient system where vi was not available, I had to write my own editor, so whoever needs an editor for an ancient system, ping me (it is not too fancy).

amazing work by the creators of this software and by the researchers, you have my full respect guys. those are the real engineers!

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1. wglb ◴[20 Feb 25 02:41 UTC] No.43110469[source]▶
An early consulting gig was to write a tutorial for ed (on the Coherent system). I often use ed--in fact I used it yesterday. I needed to edit something without clearing the screen.

Earlier, I wrote an editor for card images stored on disks. Very primitive.