My 11=A2,

Coming from my background as a Machead and it's tools (mainly Word 
for me) I find vi more to my liking since I can actual see what I'm 
editing unlike ed.  I know I can learn to use ed, but my productivity 
would go down since I'd have to go through convolutions to see it's 
effects.  Of course I started on NetBSD with a semester's worth of 
time on vi thanks to my FORTRAN class at Cal.  It's due to the visual 
nature of vi that I'd recommend it to newbies to UNIX since, I 
assume, they're background will mainly be in using GUI tools like 
Word, etc., and vi, while it's pretty different from Word, can be 
understood a bit better since it has visual feedback like Word.
-- 
Randy

OS X - UNIX for the rest of us
NetBSD - I got it up and running!