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s3m4j
on June 16, 2018
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What do Unix command names stand for?
They were sent over a network. Every baud counts. And then the output had to have a fixed width (not necessarily a fixed length, since it may have been printed on
paper
) because of "display" size.
federicoponzi
on June 17, 2018
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^ This, and also because the keyboards back then were very hard to type on.
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