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iefbr14 | 3 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.

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amelius|3 months ago

> a huge shortage in memory and storage

Maybe this explains why we have to call "creat" to "create" a file.

SoftTalker|3 months ago

Idk about creat specifically but the utility names are all terse because you were interacting with the system on a 110-baud teletype.