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Re:Actually using Ed by gcanyon on Thursday December 29, 2022 @01:30PM (#34176032)
At my second job there was a debate between the programmers. ed was too basic. vi was a resource hog and slow.

Given the computing power I have accessible now, it's like looking back on a time when people debated the speed of horses vs. how much oats they ate.

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Re:Actually using Ed by Ensorceled on Thursday December 29, 2022 @01:42PM (#34176170)
Yeah, my first "real job" we had 5 developers working on a single unix workstation with attached graphics hardware that we time shared.

I carry in my pocket a 4 year old computer with 3 orders of magnitude more ram, storage and processing power.

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