5 Feb
2020
5 Feb
'20
9:30 p.m.
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