<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><br><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On 15 Sep 2024, at 20:21, Rik Farrow <rik@rikfarrow.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><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 'catenate'...</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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</div></blockquote><br>Hangover from assembly mnemonics, perhaps.<div><br></div><div>J<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">— <div>John Dow <jmd@nelefa.org></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Written by a human.</p></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>