[sbuk]

> "Pico came later with the Pine e-mail client"

Nope. GNU Nano, like a lot of the early GNU utilities, emulates Pico. I was using Pico/Pine around 1994/95 on UNIX workstations, and Pico was the default editor.

[petre]

Pico came later than vi/ed. I know nano is a pico clone which first appeared in '99 or so.