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In many (most?) modern distros, vi is a symlink to vim.

I think all BSDs (net, free, open, dragon fly) use honest-to-goodness nvi[0]. Of course vim is available as an installable 3rd party piece of software.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvi

There’s a vi clone in Busybox too, which whilst not Vim, is still really useful.

Back at Uni I used joe because I was used to WordStar (DOS).

On one of my early jobs I had to telnet to an AIX machine to do some work and, of course, joe was not installed and vi was.

I had almost no idea on how to use it, and by the end of that project I had decided that I needed some vi skills!

I am quite surprised to learn, that vi is actually part of POSIX. I mean that is pretty cool and wonder why someone would down-vote that comment?