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Comment by pjmlp

6 months ago

Agreed, we used TUIs because we couldn't afford anything better on MS-DOS, CP/M, 8 bit home computers.

People on better systems like the Amiga and Atari were already past that.

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anthk  6 months ago

Vim was born in Amiga and Amiga OS came with some Emacs clone.

  • pjmlp  6 months ago

    I surely don't remember such clone.

    As for where Vim was born, hardly matters, it was someone with UNIX culture background, that happened to own an Amiga.

    • tralarpa  6 months ago

      > I surely don't remember such clone.

      I think they mean MicroEmacs. Despite its name, it was not Emacs, but it had Emacs-like keyboard shortcuts, multiple buffers, and macros, which was quite neat for a free 1986 application on a home computer.

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