Another reason to switch to Linux

[benenglish]

OT Warning

I just dealt with a couple of ancient versions of UNIX at one time.

I cut my teeth on SCO Open Server 5 when I got thrown into a sysadmin job and sent off to all the SCO official training. That makes me a newbie compared to most greybeards. I've never been forced to drop down to ed, though I have occasionally used it just because of the "Why not?" factor.

Funny thing about taking all that SCO training back when SCO was still a name you could say without throwing up a little - The only certified facilities that offered the courses I needed, in the order I needed, over the time frame I was afforded were two, one in Detroit and the other in Budapest. Even the Santa Cruz campus didn't offer what I needed exactly how I needed it. So, it's off to Budapest, right? Nope. Despite the fact that I showed my new boss that training in Budapest wouldn't cost any more, Uncle refused to issue me a red passport and send me across the water. It would have been a nice perk and they had no reason to turn me down other than bureaucratic inertia. It was not a way for my new boss to make a good impression on me.

 

[mroper]

I wrote a Term Paper in vi once. I used to to get windows versions of vi i was so accustomed to using it.

 

[NavyVet1959]

I used to to get windows versions of vi i was so accustomed to using it.

I still install a Windoze version on any of my machines that are afflicted with Windoze. I use "vim" these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)

I believe that vim was twice the size of vi on UNIX based boxes though.