[Info-vax] Intel proposal to simplify x86-64

[Dan Cross]

In article <u61lv7$hlm$1 at panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>[snip]
>vi is an extension to ed... all the ed commands still work in it, but you
>also get visual editing as a side-effect.  It's a line editor with a screen
>editor added to it.  What makes it powerful is that it still has all the 
>sophisticated command line tools of the line editor.  What makes it convenient
>is that it has screen editing functions.

This is partially true, but `vi` is an extension of `ex`, not
`ed`.  The command sets are similar, but not the same, and some
`ed` commands may no work in `vi`.

	- Dan C.