On Sat, Sep 28, 2024, 6:49 PM Aron Insinga <aki@insinga.com> wrote:

I am sure that shorter shell commands and switches were helpful for *anybody* typing on a clunky, electro-mechanical Teletype (former TM). They were for me, even though I had learned some typing in school on mechanical typewriters.

For the counter-example, I wonder if anyone ever tried to type very much (verbose) DCL on VAX/VMS using a Teletype. :-)

Not a teletype... but I did on a DECwriter II. It was ok, but not as nice as a crt

Warner

- Aron

On 9/15/24 16:43, sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au wrote:

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For non touch typists, shorter commands & keywords are helpful.