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What is the relation between vi, nvi and vim?

On some unixes sometime I found a command named nvi. It was a vi-like editor, without much of its functionality. Maybe it was a fork of the old vi?

Anyways, which vi versions are a fork of the others, and which are independent developments? Do they have a "family tree", similar to the unixes?

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