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From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
To: TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] keyboards and command names
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 07:05:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F5C1F516-167C-4A64-B405-156364388BF3@cfcl.com> (raw)

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


             reply	other threads:[~2020-02-05 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-05 15:05 Rich Morin [this message]
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
2020-02-05 23:40       ` Arthur Krewat
2020-02-10 17:11         ` Paul Winalski

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