> -----Original Message-----
> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org
> [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Mike Miller
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 10:01 PM
>
> Emacs is better.  Actually, and this is true, emacs was written at MIT
> where they had more computing power and better networking.  vi
> was written
> for slow networks and that was the reason for the awkward way that it
> works.  I read that in an article by Bill Joy, author of vi.

IIRC, vi was used when "networks" were typically accessed in-house or
remotely by 10 character-per-second mechanical teletypes.  Emacs was
developed much later, and after megabit/sec in-house nets and CRT dumb
terminals were common.

Chuck