Commander X16

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Yes, Vim the clone started on the Amiga, but vi per se started on the BSD fork of UNIX. Supposedly the very PDP-11 that BSD was developed on was still marooned in some hallway at Berkeley collecting dust only a few years ago. I asked for it when I visited, but presumably it had been shipped off to ...

Obviously vim would be pretty beefy for an 8 bit platform, but it actually started life on the Amiga back in the day. Are there any vi clones already ported or could easily be ported to the X16?

I am very interested in using an e-ink display (like an Amazon kindle) on a commander x16. I suspect any such monitor would be HDMI only, so I understand there would have to be a connector to VGA. Does this even make sense? Would the platform have enough muscle to do this? Even on modern platforms ...