26 Oct
2019
26 Oct
'19
2:58 a.m.
Manual small enough to pick up. Man pages for each program. IO simple and
made sense. -jsq
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 4:56 PM Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
All, we had another dozen TUHS suscribers to the list
overnight. Welcome.
A reminder that we're here to discuss Unix Heritage, so I'll nudge you
if the conversation goes a bit off-topic.
So I'll kick off another thread. What was your "ahah" moment when you
first saw that Unix was special, especially compared to the systems you'd
previously used?
Mine was: Oh, I can:
+ write a simple script
+ to edit a file on the fly
+ with no temporary files (a la pipes)
+ AND I can change the file suffix and the system won't stop me!
I was using TOPS-20 beforehand.
Cheers, Warren