[COFF] Re: [TUHS] On Bloat and the Idea of Small Specialized Tools

`pr` is an interesting case in point. I would guess that the name comes from Multics, where `print` (short name `pr`) is sort of the equivalent of `cat`, but contains a lot of extra functionality to control output, read archives, etc. But if one has never used Multics (and let's be honest: the total number of people in the world who have done so is a tiny, tiny fraction of the number of computer users), one would never guess that. When I started using Unix, I thought that "pr" was how you sent a file to the printer; "lpr" was highly non-intuitive, but I'd never seen a line printer at that point (our first home computer was a Mac with an imagewriter); the idea of `cat`ing a file into the printer device wasn't something I'd ever even considered (besides, I think the device was owned and writable only as root).