vim vs. (original) vi, not vs. older versions of vim.

Posted Aug 31, 2005 9:26 UTC (Wed) by grmd (guest, #4391)
In reply to: vim vs. (original) vi, not vs. older versions of vim. by dwheeler
Parent article: Vim's newest features (Linux.com)

the OSS/FS implementation (vim) has far surpassed the pay-for implementation (original vi), so much so that it's hard to believe anyone many people bother using or shipping the original one any more.

If anybody wishes to use a close to original implementation of vi, take a look at the ex-vi project page at SourceForge.

I use this version because it is small. When I built it for my Gentoo systems, it didn't require the installation of any other packages, unlike the larger vi clones.