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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/15/24 15:25, John Dow via TUHS
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<blockquote type="cite">On 15 Sep 2024, at 20:21, Rik Farrow
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rik@rikfarrow.com"><rik@rikfarrow.com></a> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Was the brevity typical of Unix command names
a function of the tiny disk and memory available? Or more
a function of having a Teletype 33 for input? Of course,
it could simply be that 'cat' is more convenient than
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Hangover from assembly mnemonics, perhaps.
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Multics had long names and short names for many commands. `ls` was
the short name for `list`, for instance. See "additional names" in
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://multicians.org/mga.html">https://multicians.org/mga.html</a>.<br>
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Dan H<br>
(original author of the `more` command`, considered to be a long
name by some and short by others! <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://danhalbert.org/more.html">https://danhalbert.org/more.html</a>)<br>
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