18 Oct
2019
18 Oct
'19
6:07 p.m.
Indeed, the shell and just about any command (save a few setuid ones) were just programs
that you could just as soon have your own copies of.
that was always very neat coming from more “canned” systems.
On Oct 17, 2019, at 8:49 PM, Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, Warren Toomey 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?
When I discovered that there was nothing special about the Shell i.e. I could
write/modify it, as it was not privileged in any way (unlike, cough cough, DCL etc).
-- Dave