Didn't Windows 95 do this too?!?
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@JdeBP @oddhack @cstross From 1984-1990 I worked in the Bell Labs Computing Science Research Group, the folks from whom Unix originally came. At the time we still ran our own Unix; colloquially we called it Research Unix for cultural reasons.
Our cat had no options at all; it just read as much as it could in each go and wrote the same amount, so -u was no longer needed. That's the way cat should be.
That the completely different group responsible for the commercial System V product, in a completely different part of the company in a facility four miles from Murray Hill accepted that abomination was irrelevant to us.
Research Unix wound down not long after I left, though there is no direct connection between those events.
My standards are unreasonably high, yes. We were an arrogant bunch, yes. But philosophically we were right.
The even-greater iconoclasm visible in Plan 9 comes from the same place.
