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- From: bvaughan@lotka.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan)
- Subject: Re: Why I love VI
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.151311.24984@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <Bt0BJG.HAv@cs.psu.edu> <714096328snx@n5ial.chi.il.us>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:13:11 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <714096328snx@n5ial.chi.il.us> jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham) writes:
- >In article <Bt0BJG.HAv@cs.psu.edu> ward@math.psu.edu writes:
- >> In an old(er) article, bvaughan@lotka.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan)
- >> writes:
- >>> I'm always amazed at the fact that the most rapidly evolving field of the
- >>> 20th century attracts so many people who adamantly refuse to evolve with
- >>> it.
- >>> I've known people who refused to abandon their punch cards when tapes came
- >>> along;
- >>> who refused to abandon their tapes when disks came along,
- >>
- >> I can put 5 gigs on a little 5 buck videotape. I just don't see your point.
- >
- >ummm, I might be mistaken, but I believe the reference was to cassette
- >tapes (like the old trash-80 computers used). and, again, if my
- >interpretation is correct, we're not talking for things like backup...
- >we're talking for normal, everyday storage...just like lots of people
- >use their hard disk for.
-
- Yes, that's (almost) what I was referring to, but in the IBM mainframe
- world. People who have 500 files they use every day on a 2400' reel tape
- and waste 1/2 hour many times a day getting the tape mounted so they can
- read 30 records from the 499th file.
-
- Some people had the mistaken impression that I was trashing vi, which I
- never mentioned in my posting. What originally caught my eye was a snide
- reference to menus, mice, cursor keys, function keys, meta keys, etc. I
- myself haven't come to like mice and menus (yet), but I've come to see the
- value of cursor keys and function keys. And I'm not going to dismiss mice
- and menus out of hand, because I can see that's the way the world is
- moving. Some of the software I've been supporting for years (SAS for
- instance) is coming out with XWindows versions with full GUI splendor and
- if I insist on sticking with what I already know, I'll soon be an
- obsolescent SAS support person.
-