[Coco] No easy rename on OS-9 ?

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:28 AM,  <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
> The reason for the short names was because at the time Unix was being
> developed the user interface was a 60 WPM teletype.  It took real time
> send a command and even more time to echo it back and print it.  People
> today are unbelievably spoiled by the speed of their machines.


And the teletype people were unbelievable spoiled by the simplicity of
typing something and seeing it printed compared to previous generation
of pulling cables and changing switches on big panels...


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