[TUHS] keyboards and command names

Paul Winalski paul.winalski at gmail.com
Tue Feb 11 03:11:55 AEST 2020


On 2/5/20, Arthur Krewat <krewat at kilonet.net> wrote:
> Have't seen mention of TOPS-10, or TOPS-20 for that matter... shortening
> commands was a great time saver. Problem was, next time they added a
> command, muscle memory had to relearn.
>
DEC's DCL (Digital Command Language) was used on TOPS-20 and VMS.  It
required that all commands be unique in the first three characters,
and allowed abbreviation.

-Paul W.


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