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p.s. And I did use PDP-11 Unix on an upper-case-only ASR33 by typing
backslashes before all upper-case letters to keep them from being
mapped to lower case.<br>
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"Unix means never having to use the shift key."<br>
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(Except for those annoying all-upper-case macro names in C.)<br>
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- Aron<br>
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<div>On 16 Sep 2024, at 05:21, Rik Farrow
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rik@rikfarrow.com"><rik@rikfarrow.com></a> wrote:</div>
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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'...</span>
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