On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 3:02 PM <jason-tuhs(a)shalott.net> wrote:
I’ve never heard anyone mention keyboard skills
with the people of the
CSRC - doesn’t anyone know?
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V05.4.pdf (p23)
History tells us that the guys who designed
[UNIX] did their own typing
into the machine. It seems to me that because of this, the main reason
that UNIX enjoys/suffers from terse input and output is not through any
intellectual design decisions made at some early stage but because the
UNIX designers were just bad typists working on slow peripherals.
-Jason
Mostly rampant speculation on my part, but with 110 baud modems, 10
characters per second right?,
and added delays for carriage returns, it was the peripherals that
encouraged brevity. Code would be
viewed multiple times, but entered roughly once.