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PFE back in the day. Simple macros and templates that made life much easier in a small package. Some editors today don't even bother with macros or have all of PFE's options.
I'm aware that the concept can be difficult to grasp and that the cli commands seem weird at first.
Once it clicks however, it's an absolutely fantastic tool. I'm still often amazed by what is possible with selective resets, diffs, greps, and most impressively interactive rebases. It makes a lot of otherwise difficult tasks much easier, and more elegant.
Git is IMO one of the most important pieces of software made in the last couple of decades and should be celebrated more for it.
4.3BSD Unix. Arguably, the first modern operating system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Berkeley_Softwa...
Saying 4.3BSD Unix is like saying SVR4 Unix. Which implementation ? As far as i know SunOS (4.1x) was a 4.3BSD implementation and Solaris was a SVR4 implementation.