Vi turns 50 this year (en.wikipedia.org)

11 points by kurren 8mo ago ↗ HN

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

The short names of old Linux programs like Vi is a legacy of the much more limited storage space available to UNIX systems when they were originally being developed.