On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Woodchuck <marmot@pennswoods.net> wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Chris Bennett
> <chris@bennettconstruction.biz> wrote:
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>> Did ed come out before or after those clickety-clack paper printing
>> terminals?
>
> All text editors came after teletypes. (Teletypes go back to
> the 1920's).

Sure, but ed was definitely used with teletypes back in the day.
Consider the first story told by Dennis Ritchie here:

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/odd.html

in which a side-effect of using ed with a teletype is involved.


Philip Guenther