how to backspace in vi
He seems to be missing a "not". Code point 8 (^H) in ASCII is backspace, but off course, when you do remote echoing then you can use whatever code point you want. IAC, he seems to be confusing BackSpace with Rubout; as you know, it used to be very common to do things like letter BS underscore to print underscored text.
ASCII BS, buttuming that you meant 8 (-010).
ASCII ESC.
ASCII DEL.
Backspace is not delete, although some software treats it as if it were. And the IBM character set is EBCDIC; there is no "EBSIDEC".
It may be apocryphal, but I've been told that he was writing an editor under time constraints, lost the source code and wrote vi because it was all that he had time left for.
As for the ADM-3A, "boat anchor" is the kindest term I can think of.
Backspace or delete? Using it as delete is fully in accordance with ASCII.
Nonsense. Google for SAGE and BUIC. They may not have been common, but they were there.
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