^Paul, Ryan (November 2, 2011),Two decades of productivity: Vim's 20th anniversary, Ars Technica, retrievedFebruary 7, 2015,The first two prominent vi clones were Stevie and Elvis. Stevie, the ST Editor for vi Enthusiasts, was originally developed for the Atari ST in 1987 and ported to UNIX the next year. It was somewhat primitive but attracted a modest following. ... The earliest version of Vim was developed on the Amiga by Bram Moolenaar in 1988. ... He based his new editor on Stevie, which he has said was the best Amiga-compatible vi clone at the time.
The original interview in Czech:Moolenaar, Bram (April 18, 2005)."Rozhovor: Bram Moolenaar" [Interview: Bram Moolenaar].LinuxEXPRES (Interview) (in Czech). Interviewed by Zapletal, Lukáš. question 2.Archived from the original on December 28, 2023. RetrievedJanuary 3, 2024.
English translation:Bram Moolenaar (n.d.)."Interview with Bram Moolenaar, as published in the Czech magazine LinuxEXPRES, English version".Bram Moolenaar's website. Archived fromthe original on January 7, 2016.Is VIM derivate of other VI clone or you started from scratch? I started with Stevie. This was a Vi clone for the Atari ST computer, ported to the Amiga. It had quite a lot of problems and could not do everything that Vi could, but since the source code was available I could fix that myself.
