phil at rephil.org wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 12:35:14PM -0500, Daniel Taylor wrote: > > On 27 Oct 2001, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > > > > Andrew Nemchenko <drew at usfamily.net> writes: > > > > > > > What is this bull? VI hands down > > > > > > vi wasn't too badly substandard an editor in the 70s. > > > > > <old guy rant> > > Ahem, vi was a darn good improvement over ed if you had the access > > to use it. The screen redraws were a bit much if you had 1200 > > baud dialup, but it could be used quite nicely on a 9600 bd > > local terminal. > > You're mixing your time periods -- 1200 baud was pretty sexy for most > of the 70's. I think 300 baud was the most likely. Probably on a > Racal-Vadic modem with an acoustic coupler! > I would have killed for 300 baud. I played (and finished) Adventure at 110 baud. I'll never forget the tension as you realized the axe had been thrown, and then had to wait a while for the sentence to finish being transmitted to see if you had survived... I'm too old to live... Kent