Norman
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Jon Martin, Ph.D. 🦕@nixCraft Oh, that's why one of the arguments to kill is THAC0!
Hydrian
Edoardo La Greca@nixCraft I've always found them kinky. Touch, mount, head, etc.
The_Moose_Man
Stefan Baur 8 * 💉
Gert, ZL2AW 🇳🇿
Соус
cerement> “Hacker folklore that pays homage to ‘wizards’ and speaks of incantations and demons has too much psychological truthfulness about it to be entirely a joke.”
—The Jargon File
SpaceLifeForm
DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)This is a PDF with more technical details.
@SpaceLifeForm @nixCraft
I know, I was there. But the original post didn't mean 14 chars when they said 'short'. Obviously they meant things like "ls" and "rm" and "cp" -- two chars.
All operating systems have command line commands with most names that fit in fourteen characters.
Along those lines, people have complained bitterly about troff/nroff having 2 char commands. These were shortened from the original RUNOFF (from which nroff/troff is a semi-clone) which used full english words for commands.
@SpaceLifeForm @nixCraft I remember those days.
NerdRelaxo@SpaceLifeForm i read that the typing on the by then used terminal keyboards was so hard @nixCraft
Hunt and peck. Speed was not an issue.
An old style mechanical typewriter was not fun, but reading the output on a thermal printer tty was not that much fun either.
Bill Zaumen@nixCraft The actual reason is that Linux commands are by and large the same as the original Unix commands (although options tend to be different). You wouldn't want to type very
much if you had to use the original terminals, so the commands are short and cryptic. You also wanted to minimize output as these terminals were as slow as a herd of turtles.
(The link is to an image showing a teletype terminal used decades ago)
Komodore68@nixCraft ?? Which linux commands are supposed to be cryptic?
In example to remove the french package is a no brainer and intuitive …
rm -fr /
Fazal Majid@nixCraft UNIX: 1970. D&D: 1974
David W. Jones@nixCraft
Lazy typists: cp, rm, mv, df, dd, etc. Partly because Unix was developed in the days when teletype terminals were still in use?
@SpaceLifeForm
Lazy typists: cp, rm, mv, df, dd, etc. Partly because Unix was developed in the days when teletype terminals were still in use?
@SpaceLifeForm
Every byte was not just storage space, but also time.
You tend to notice this at 300 Baud.
If you watch closely, and pause the video as needed, you will be going back to the future.
Seriously, watch this closely. It is worth your time.
