Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Neeum Zawan wrote:
>
> >  Now you know how lots of people feel when they have to learn UNIX
>
> ls, cp, mv, rn and friends. Becuase, let's face it, adding two octets to
> cp to make copy would be a crime...

there were no visual text editors back then.  You entered chars and there was a
lag before they were printed.  The less chars, the less the chance of errors.
Kinda like the choice of bits too.

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