5 Feb
2020
5 Feb
'20
10:18 p.m.
even at 120 cps, i agree.
On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 10:47 AM John P. Linderman <jpl.jpl(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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
>
>