[Coco] No easy rename on OS-9 ?

Richard E Crislip rcrislip at neo.rr.com
Sun Apr 6 12:40:42 EDT 2014


On Tue, 1 Apr 2014 11:31:00 -0400
"Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)" <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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...
> 
> 

Ouch 8-). Touche



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