>...it was developed by and for a small group of highly specialized experts in an environment where every keystroke, every character displayed on the screen, ca

>...it was developed by and for a small group of highly specialized experts in an environment where every keystroke, every character displayed on the screen, came at a real and meaningful cost. Have keyboards gotten better/faster? How does the existence of a 80 character line length change the best way to specify a directory listing? This seems to be based on the logical fallacy that since the old thing is bad that a better new thing must be possible.