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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: 0.209s | 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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pjmlp ◴[20 Feb 25 09:00 UTC] No.43112586[source]▶
Not ed, but definilty inspired by it, I am old enough to have done typewriting school exam on MS-DOS 3.3 edlin.

And since then never used it ever again, nor ed when a couple of years later we had Xenix access, as vi was much saner alternative.

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1. skissane ◴[20 Feb 25 15:18 UTC] No.43115717[source]▶
I also remember using MS-DOS 3.3 EDLIN in anger, on our home computer [0] when I was roughly 8, because it was the only general purpose text editor we had. (We also had Wordstar, which I believe could save files in plain text mode, but I don’t think my dad or I knew that at the time.) I didn’t do much with it but used it to write some simple batch files. My dad had created a directory called C:\BAT and we used it a bit like a menu system, we put batch files in it to start other programs. I don’t remember any PC-compatible machines at my school, it was pretty much all Apple IIs, although the next year moved to a new school which as well as Apple IIs, also had IBM PC JXs (IBM Japan variant of the IBM PCjr which was sold to schools in Australia/New Zealand) and Acorn Archimedes.

[0] it was an IBM PC clone, an ISA bus 386SX, made by TPG - TPG are now one of Australia’s leading ISPs, but in the late 1980s were a PC clone manufacturer. It had a 40Mb hard disk, two 5.25 inch floppy drives (one 1.2Mb, the other 360Kb), and a vacant slot for a 3.5 inch floppy, we didn’t actually install the floppy in it until later. I still have it, but some of the innards were replaced, I think the motherboard currently in it is a 486 or Pentium