Good historical overview of vim and its origin. I remember using vi for the first time at my university because emacs would slow down to a crawl on our unix clone system especially just before our computer science homework was due, and I was forced to switch from Emacs to vi. During that time, Amiga was my home computer, but I don't remember seeing it on Amiga. Most of my time was spent at school on a Wyse VT-220 clone terminal. Since then, I've tried Elvis, nvi, and few other clones until settling with vim much later in life when Ruby on Rails came onto scene.