Comment by tolciho

Try a 300 baud modem for a few months and good money says something terribly modern like Get-MrParameterCount would get compressed, a lot. Here's Bill Joy on the topic:

> No. It took a long time. It was really hard to do because you've got to remember that I was trying to make it usable over a 300 baud modem. That's also the reason you have all these funny commands. It just barely worked to use a screen editor over a modem. It was just barely fast enough. A 1200 baud modem was an upgrade. 1200 baud now is pretty slow. — "Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor". The Register. 2003.