29 Sep
2024
29 Sep
'24
6:57 a.m.
p.s. And I did use PDP-11 Unix on an upper-case-only ASR33 by typing
backslashes before all upper-case letters to keep them from being mapped
to lower case.
"Unix means never having to use the shift key."
(Except for those annoying all-upper-case macro names in C.)
- Aron
> On 16 Sep 2024, at 05:21, Rik Farrow
<rik(a)rikfarrow.com> wrote:
>
> Was the brevity typical of Unix command names a function of the tiny
> disk and memory available? Or more a function of having a Teletype 33
> for input? Of course, it could simply be that 'cat' is more
> convenient than 'catenate'...
>
> Rik