VI when released was crap, it sucked goats on many folk's systems, for many reasons, hence the huge amount of bug fixes. You CAN'T say it wasn't bug ridden. Look at the amount of patches... Yes the PC platform is atrocious for developers due to the variations..but that's also why it's popular.

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