Comment by iefbr14
2 months ago
For nostalgia sake. It's from the computing period when there was a great influx of good idea's but still a huge shortage in memory and storage.
2 months ago
For nostalgia sake. It's from the computing period when there was a great influx of good idea's but still a huge shortage in memory and storage.
> a huge shortage in memory and storage
Maybe this explains why we have to call "creat" to "create" a file.
Idk about creat specifically but the utility names are all terse because you were interacting with the system on a 110-baud teletype.