Question about the origin of the Vim logo

Jay Thompson

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Oct 18, 2019, 2:58:08 AM10/18/19

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I saw a tweet recently with a screenshot of the MS Word 5.1 splash screen: https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1183601276010893312

The logo looks familiar. Is the vim logo a deliberate reference to this logo?

Tony Mechelynck

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Oct 18, 2019, 11:37:06 AM10/18/19

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On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 8:58 AM Jay Thompson <eye...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I saw a tweet recently with a screenshot of the MS Word 5.1 splash screen: https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1183601276010893312
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> The logo looks familiar. Is the vim logo a deliberate reference to this logo?

Hm, this tweet seems to quote a picture from 1992. Vim was first
released in 1991. So who's copying whom?

Best regards,
Tony.

Jay Thompson

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Oct 18, 2019, 2:39:46 PM10/18/19

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Good point! But I found this screenshot of Word 4.0 from 1989: https://spunger.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ms-word.jpg

Credit to this article: https://spunger.com/mac-os-7-back-thanks-internet-archive/

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