5 Feb
2020
5 Feb
'20
9:47 p.m.
I of course defer to dmr about the major influence, but I very much
appreciated the brevity when printing programs and shell scripts and lines
in ed at 110 baud, even with a terminal having a respectable keyboard. I
printed much more than I entered.
On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 10:38 AM Jaap Akkerhuis <jaapna(a)xs4all.nl> wrote:
I have always suspected that the brevity of the
Unix command names was
strongly
influenced by the clunky keyboards on the
teletypes that were being
used. Can
anyone confirm, deny, and/or comment on this?
Peter Collinson made the same observation at the 25th year celebration
of UNIX (USENIX, Washington) and it was confirmed by dmr.
jaap