# Memex: Today's Interesting Links (old school editors) (2024-01-02)

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**Created:** [January 2, 2024, 8:00am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/memex-todays-interesting-links-old-school-editors-2024-01-02/44 "2024-01-02T08:00:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 8:00am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/memex-todays-interesting-links-old-school-editors-2024-01-02/44/1 "2024-01-02T08:00:00Z")

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# Interesting Finds for 2024-01-02

- [The pleasing aesthetics of OpenBSD on X11 Carbon with Window Maker and ACME editor (thanks colinhb)  
  ![OpenBSD on X1 Carbon with Window Maker and ACME editor by colinhb](https://pluralist.net/uploads/default/original/1X/bbab199e16f7f86470a98bd0ee9088a64292469b.png) ](https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/eyq8a5/window_maker_there_was_a_call_for_openbsd_desktops/?rdt=39898)
- [ ACME is great. But before it came SAM  
  ![sam text editor](https://pluralist.net/uploads/default/original/1X/708cfa07cc4be04bd588f8063ff127ebe881dd63.png)  
It was created by Rob Pike at Bell Labs in the early 1980s and it was written in C. ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_%28text_editor%29)  
Some people even believe that SAM is a “[a graphical version of the venerable ed on steroids](http://sam.cat-v.org/)”  
[**The Text Editor** sam by Rob Pike](https://9p.io/sys/doc/sam/sam.html)
- [But way before SAM there was QED. This was created by Butler Lampson, L. Peter Deutsch, Dana Angluin. It was released in 1967 for the Berkeley Timesharing System (SDS 940).](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED_(text_editor))  
([src](https://github.com/draychev/sam))
- [ Why ed Is the Standard Text Editor? by Che Dan  
Explores the history, core features and advantages of the venerable **ed** text editor. ](https://levelup.gitconnected.com/why-ed-is-the-standard-text-editor-bf45f8f21a3a)
- [ Back to 1969 or Introduction to Ed - old-school text editor by Andrei Fedotov  
Andrei backs up the history of ed with some great pictures of old computers ed ran on. ](https://dev.to/andreisfedotov/back-to-1969-or-introduction-to-ed-old-school-text-editor-ffo)
- [Ed Is The Standard Text Editor - history of ed and some humor!](https://wiki.c2.com/?EdIsTheStandardTextEditor)
- [Actually using ed (2012)](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13113556)
- [An incomplete history of the QED Text Editor by Dennis Ritchie](https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/qed.html)