The standard UNIX file system layout exists because hard drives were small at the time and files had to be split across several.
The VI keyboard shortcuts only make logical sense on a specific Tektronix 4014 terminal that was popular at the time: 46 years ago.
The reason the delete key is broken in like half of all UNIX / Linux systems is because TTY is short for “teletypewriter” — literally a remote type writer banging out text on dead trees. The carriage can go back one character at a time and overwrite an error but it can’t shift printed text on paper.
Windows was developed in an era of CRT displays and delete works with it consistently.
This is why it cracks me up whenever someone talks a out “Linux being the standard”…
The VI keyboard shortcuts only make logical sense on a specific Tektronix 4014 terminal that was popular at the time: 46 years ago.
The reason the delete key is broken in like half of all UNIX / Linux systems is because TTY is short for “teletypewriter” — literally a remote type writer banging out text on dead trees. The carriage can go back one character at a time and overwrite an error but it can’t shift printed text on paper.
Windows was developed in an era of CRT displays and delete works with it consistently.
This is why it cracks me up whenever someone talks a out “Linux being the standard”…