[TUHS] Early Unix and Keyboard Skills
jason-tuhs at shalott.net
jason-tuhs at shalott.net
Thu Nov 3 05:01:29 AEST 2022
> 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
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