[rob74]

To put it into perspective: vi was already 15 years old when Bram decided to write vim for the Amiga, which had a GUI - so vim already looked out of place on the Amiga too! - but it was still successful, of course (I think) mostly because of being ported to Linux pretty much at the same time as Linux got started.

[anthk]

Amiga by default had an Emacs clone on every install.

[mmooss]

That's incredible. Why? And why a clone? ???

[Narishma]

Probably because GNU Emacs was too bloated for the Amiga's 512KB of RAM (or whatever amount the original model had).

[mmooss]

They also might have been conserving storage space. Though Emacs did run on other contemporary systems.