Bill Joy Quotes
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
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But with Interleaf I don't even have a spell program.
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I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.
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I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.
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The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
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So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em and put some of it into what was then called en, which was really ed with some em features.
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Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
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Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.
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I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.
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I just don't like to lose what's in the window.
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It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.
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That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.
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Interleaf is based on the formatting process.
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I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
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I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.
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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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Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.
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I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
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The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.
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I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.
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I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.
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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
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I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.