You the fag posting on Lukes forum?
Stop using harmful software
Nathaniel Collins
Eli Roberts
Why? Can someone enlighten me?
Aiden Sullivan
Life is bloat
Jace Jenkins
Nice meme, m8.
Ryan Foster
Unix was a much smaller system that was completely feasible to edit with ed.
Jayden Bailey
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Jaxon Robinson
I also wish to know about this
Easton Morgan
I can't take anyone who recommends anything other than gedit seriously.
Isaiah Jones
There wasn't much choice of what kind of editor back in the 70's when a lot of people were using hardcopy teletypes. Even CP/M came with something similar to ed.
I don't know why someone would want to use ed as main editor today (which his list seems to imply). It's a lot nicer to edit in vi, and it's not much bigger than ed.
Jose Moore
ITS is simpler than Multics, but that doesn't make it more similar to UNIX. The UNIX-Haters were mostly Multics, ITS, and Lisp machine programmers and users who understood why UNIX sucked.
Multics, VMS, the Lisp machines, and various mainframe systems.
The OS is the second most important thing after the hardware. "Doesn't matter" is another way of saying it sucks.
What I find disgusting about UNIX is that it has *never*grown any operating system extensions of its own, all thecreative work is derived from VMS, Multics and theoperating systems it killed.
Hell, Unix even -encourages- this phenomenon. Contrast whathappens on ITS or a Lisp Machine or Multics when a programerror happens, with what happens on Unix. On ITS, LispMachines or Multics your program suspends and you are giventhe opportunity to debug the problem and perhaps fix it andproceed. You are given the chance to assign some blame. OnUnix -- *blam* -- core dumped. -Maybe- you can debug it,but you certainly can't proceed, so why bother? Ignore that(huge) core dump file and move on to your next task.Note that users -like- this behavior. No kidding. Ask halfthe graduate students at MIT these days -- they -hate- theLisp Machine debugger. All those blasted -choices-. Allthose explainations and questions. They don't want to knowwho to blame -- all they want to know is that it what theywere doing didn't work so they can try something else.So if I want to -think- about who to blame for my problems,I'll go use a Lisp Machine (or an ITS or a Multics). Butthese days I use Unix, where I don't have to think.