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@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