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* [TUHS] keyboards and command names
@ 2020-02-05 15:05 Rich Morin
  2020-02-05 15:30 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
  2020-02-05 21:03 ` Andrew Newman
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Rich Morin @ 2020-02-05 15:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: TUHS

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?

-r


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2020-02-05 15:05 [TUHS] keyboards and command names Rich Morin
2020-02-05 15:30 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2020-02-05 15:47   ` John P. Linderman
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
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