I’m not sure the model 33 required a carriage return delay. At 110 baud it had plenty of time to move the carriage. back. Other printers (especially faster ones) weren’t so lucky, but the LA36 decwriter had a catchup mode to print the backlog after a return. The LA120 was boustrophedonic so returns weren’t as much of an issue. ------ Original Message ------ From "John P. Linderman" To jason-tuhs@shalott.net Cc "steve jenkin" ; "TUHS" Date 11/2/2022 12:20:12 PM Subject [TUHS] Re: Early Unix and Keyboard Skills > > >On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 3:02 PM wrote: >> >> > 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 > >Mostly rampant speculation on my part, but with 110 baud modems, 10 >characters per second right?, >and added delays for carriage returns, it was the peripherals that >encouraged brevity. Code would be >viewed multiple times, but entered roughly once.