Same! Closely followed by 'cat' lol. 'type' just doesn't register in my brain

VMS also uses type to dump a file to stdout.

I understand that DEC TOPS 20 influenced CP/M and MS-DOS, so that could be the source for type.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS-20

Edit: type has its own wiki, and TOPS-20 implemented it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TYPE_(DOS_command)

Back before "type" we had "copy FILE CON".