I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.

I think the wonderful thing about vi is that it has such a good market share because we gave it away.

Back in '99 that was unheard of. Your system administrators were the ones who did that kind of thing for the customer. You didn't allow your customers to create their own email box or their own FTP user because it was something that was done by the geeks in the big dark room out the back.