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From: dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
Date: 10 Nov 1996 22:41:18 -0500
Organization: D and D Data, Vienna VA
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In article <kbibb.847601696@shellx>, Ken Bibb <kbibb@best.com> wrote:
>In <E0L92J.4tM@world.std.com> dp@world.std.com (Jeff DelPapa) writes:
>>The biggest conclusion that you can draw from the oldest of unix
>>commands, (cp,rm,ln,cmp, and directories like /tmp /usr) is that the
>>original authors were vwl alrgc.
>
>Most likely due to the amount of pressure required to depress the
>keys on a Decwriter...

	I *hope* that you mean a Teletype.  Every Decwriter keyboard that I
have ever used had an excellent keyboard.  However, on an ASR-33 Teletype,
you could balance a broom, handle down, on a key without applying enough
force to cause it to send the character. :-)

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