Re: [ -d (#i)Temp ]

On 2026-04-10 20:11, Alexis wrote:
> In 1976, Version 6 Unix ran on PDP-11s whose bus width ranged from 16 
> to 22 bits; 22 bits allows directly addressing at most 512k of memory. 
> The Thompson shell was designed to be small to maximise the space 
> available for the programs it was running.
That would explain it.  Once I was whining to Bart about zsh's terseness 
and he explained that back in the day, one conserved every possible 
keystroke.
>> ... And then a few weeks later I had a user population of about a
>> dozen, most of them friends, and I didn't want to screw up my embedded
>> base. The rest, sadly, is history.
>
Ain't it the truth?  Me, I'm a compatibility Nazi -- do the right thing 
and damn the torpedoes.  Older versions are always there in any case.

Thanks Alexis