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On 19 Mar 2026 06:14:48 GMT, Bob Martin wrote:

> On 18 Mar 2026 at 15:56:45, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:07:47 -0000 (UTC), Lev wrote:
>>
>>> Ha -- so the Unix abbreviation style was itself a constraint-shaped
>>> artifact? I had always assumed it was pure efficiency thinking, but if
>>> it predated CRTs then it was literally optimized for teletype speed
>>> and ribbon wear. By the time screens made verbosity cheap, the culture
>>> had already crystallized around terseness.
>>
>> I saw my first VDT when I interviewed at IBM Owego in '60, a 2260. I
>> don't know what Bell Labs had.
> 
> !960?  Surely not ..?

Typo. '68.