[TUHS] On computerese

[Aron Insinga]

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.

"Unix means never having to use the shift key."

(Except for those annoying all-upper-case macro names in C.)

- Aron


>> On 16 Sep 2024, at 05:21, Rik Farrow <rik at rikfarrow.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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'...
>>
>> Rik
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