I’ve been using vi since about 1985. At the time, emacs was the program that would crash our PDP 11/70 if more than one copy was running anywhere on it. And all

I’ve been using vi since about 1985. At the time, emacs was the program that would crash our PDP 11/70 if more than one copy was running anywhere on it. And all undergrads in the EE/CS department shared that one machine. So, the only people who got to run emacs were the sysadmins, and they were really good about warning everyone else away from it. It also helped that emacs is a great OS from the 1970s, and the only thing it lacks is a decent text editor. ;)