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

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• Bill Joy:

  I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone ha

• Bill Joy:

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

• Bill Joy:

  I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

• Bill Joy:

  The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.

• Bill Joy:

  I just don't like to lose what's in the window.

• Bill Joy:

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

• Bill Joy:

  I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too compl

• Bill Joy:

  Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

• Bill Joy:

  Interleaf is based on the formatting process.

• Bill Joy:

  That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.