[TUHS] On computerese

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2024, 6:49 PM Aron Insinga <aki at insinga.com> wrote:

> I am sure that shorter shell commands and switches were helpful for
> *anybody* typing on a clunky, electro-mechanical Teletype (former TM).
> They were for me, even though I had learned some typing in school on
> mechanical typewriters.
>
> For the counter-example, I wonder if anyone ever tried to type very much
> (verbose) DCL on VAX/VMS using a Teletype. :-)
>

Not a teletype... but I did on a DECwriter II. It was ok, but not as nice
as a crt

Warner

- Aron
>
>
> On 9/15/24 16:43, sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au wrote:
>
> ...
> For non touch typists, shorter commands & keywords are helpful.
>
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