On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 22:46 -0800, jdow wrote: > > Craig, this is an 'ix'-like operating system. Users are expected to > abbreviate commands into oblivion, ls for list and ps for process status > come to mind. I concluded long LONG ago it was because people could not > type. (Hey, I sympathized with that concept, too!) Actually I think it was because storage space use to be extremely limited in original unix - so keeping commands short saved extra bits in scripting.
