cat has been (ab)used to output files to a terminal for a long time. BSD 1 has a program cat3a [0] that Bill Joy wrote in 1977(!) to quickly write files to an A

cat has been (ab)used to output files to a terminal for a long time. BSD 1 has a program cat3a [0] that Bill Joy wrote in 1977(!) to quickly write files to an ADM-3A terminal [1]. If you look at the keyboard it has arrows on the HJKL keys which is where vi got its navigation from. (Also the escape key was next to Q!) [0] https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-1-Snapshot-Development/s6/cat3a.c https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-1-S... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A