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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-hk.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!howland.erols.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!bonkers!web.nmti.com!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: 12 Nov 1996 19:51:36 GMT Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI Lines: 11 Message-ID: <56akg8$ems@web.nmti.com> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <1996111206190712643@[192.159.32.2]> <569rkk$gv0@orac.mon.rnb.com> <1996111212371894551@[192.159.32.153]> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonic.nmti.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26315 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1479 alt.folklore.computers:124480 In article <1996111212371894551@[192.159.32.153]>, Shawn Barnhart <swb@mercury.campbell-mithun.com> wrote: > Are there many other OS of Unix vintage that have as many two character > commands? Most of the ones I used allowed 1- or 2- character abbreviations for most commands. This was resurrected later on when membrane keyboards became briefly popular. -- </peter>