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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

  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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