[iefbr14]

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.

[amelius]

> a huge shortage in memory and storage

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

[SoftTalker]

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