From: "John P. Linderman" <jpl.jpl@gmail.com>
To: Jaap Akkerhuis <jaapna@xs4all.nl>
Cc: TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] keyboards and command names
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 10:47:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC0cEp8ZosxgmmHwgcoYM8iWGJmNXf=ZaTith6UgPeUZ0Cyocw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1FE9FA5C-9802-4DAB-9814-3D15BBA2D10E@xs4all.nl>
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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@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
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-05 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-05 15:05 Rich Morin
2020-02-05 15:30 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2020-02-05 15:47 ` John P. Linderman [this message]
2020-02-05 16:18 ` Clem Cole
2020-02-05 21:03 ` Andrew Newman
2020-02-05 21:59 ` Harald Arnesen
2020-02-05 22:20 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-02-05 23:40 ` Arthur Krewat
2020-02-10 17:11 ` Paul Winalski
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