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When I moved to Linux from Windows I couldn't understand why the operations weren't actual words you could deduce and remember :) mv instead of move? why?! Now
by dmitriid 5y ago
When I moved to Linux from Windows I couldn't understand why the operations weren't actual words you could deduce and remember :) mv instead of move? why?!
Now I have them internalised, so it's fine.
- TheMonarchist 5y agoUnix was created on a PDP-7. Two letters was generous considering that they had to use an electromechanical terminal. They also had only 4K words of store in the beginning so they wouldn't run out of meaningful shorthands.