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+title: "The True History of Vi"
+category: "blog"
+abstract: A short story about how we got the most important editor of all time
+date: 2023-03-01T10:57:34+01:00
+year: 
+draft: false
+tags:
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+- landuke
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+[Landuke](https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-true-history-of-vi) returns with a brief history of how Vi, the editor, came to be. I learned a lot!
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+> People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore.
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+And the picture that explains it all. It all makes sense now!
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+{{<img-center "adm-3a-kb.webp" "The keyboard layout of the ADM-3A." "https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-true-history-of-vi">}}
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+> While vi may have initially only been distributed to a mere 75 people (as part of the 2BSD archive)… it would go on to become a standard of POSIX, distributed on nearly every UNIX-alike system for the last 40 years.
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+The full article can be found without a subscription on [Substack](https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-true-history-of-vi).
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