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by GuB-42 1228 days ago
I am not aware of many distros shipping the original vi today. However, a lot of them ship busybox, which is a self-contained and lightweight collection of standard UNIX tools, including a simplified vi. If you have a UNIX shell on an embedded system, there is a good chance it is running busybox.

vim is an order of magnitude bigger than the entire busybox package. In fact, it may be bigger than the entire system.