From: jason-tuhs@shalott.net
To: steve jenkin <sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Early Unix and Keyboard Skills
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 12:01:29 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.23.453.2211021152530.23126@waffle.shalott.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E212D205-B786-4441-A95B-B5F5546B5C6C@canb.auug.org.au>
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> I’ve never heard anyone mention keyboard skills with the people of the
> CSRC - doesn’t anyone know?
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V05.4.pdf (p23)
> History tells us that the guys who designed [UNIX] did their own typing
> into the machine. It seems to me that because of this, the main reason
> that UNIX enjoys/suffers from terse input and output is not through any
> intellectual design decisions made at some early stage but because the
> UNIX designers were just bad typists working on slow peripherals.
-Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-02 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-02 2:36 [TUHS] " steve jenkin
2022-11-02 6:53 ` [TUHS] " Michael Kjörling
2022-11-02 7:11 ` Rob Pike
2022-11-02 13:28 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-03 21:51 ` Stuff Received
2023-08-05 23:53 ` scj
2023-08-06 0:22 ` KenUnix
2023-08-06 0:43 ` Larry McVoy
2023-08-06 14:51 ` Leah Neukirchen
2023-08-06 15:01 ` Larry McVoy
2023-08-06 16:31 ` Clem Cole
2023-08-06 18:20 ` Jon Forrest
2023-08-07 4:56 ` Adam Thornton
2023-08-06 8:37 ` Ronald Natalie
2022-11-02 12:13 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-11-02 12:24 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-11-02 20:35 ` Ron Natalie
2022-11-02 12:26 ` John P. Linderman
2022-11-02 13:07 ` Larry Stewart
2022-11-02 13:16 ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-02 13:27 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-11-02 19:01 ` jason-tuhs [this message]
2022-11-02 19:20 ` John P. Linderman
2022-11-03 1:47 ` Ronald Natalie
2022-11-03 1:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-11-03 3:01 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-03 15:17 ` Paul Winalski
2022-11-03 16:18 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-03 17:02 ` John Cowan
2022-11-03 19:36 ` Rich Morin
2022-11-03 20:01 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2022-11-02 12:16 Douglas McIlroy
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