F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix

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• jolmg 2 hours ago
  > bundling the Pascal system with ex, a line editor developed from em.

  What's em? I thought it was developed from ed.

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  • nagaiaida 2 hours ago
    https://www.coulouris.net/cs_history/em_story/
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    • stackghost 40 minutes ago
      > By the way, 'em' stands for 'editor for mortals' - I christened it that after Ken Thompson visited our lab at QMC while I was developing it and said something like: "yeah, I've seen editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them, I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm editing".

      Literally an insane opinion.

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      • tosti 30 minutes ago
        To be fair, I sometimes edit files with ed. Especially the ones I've seen hundreds of times (eg /etc/ssh/sshd_config).

        Nowadays we're dealing with orders of magnitude more code. Back in the day it would've been fine for the programs you wrote yourself.
• BikiniPrince 2 hours ago
  It absolutely needs like 52 panels. I hope they integrate some politics by panel 1025.