Re: [TUHS] What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment?

Hoi, my Aha moments were (in no particular order): - Users can change their login shell! -- This surely was the most impressing discovery for me. - Users are regarded as programmers and are provided with structurally all possiblities, i.e. you can recreate the whole system to your preferences within your home directory and use that as the default. - The shell as a fluid way from dumb programm calling to full programming, where any user can float up and down the level, based on personal skills and the problem at hand. - Chroot (Linux from Scratch) - To me it's actually more a philosophy behind it all, and UNIX itself ist more a demonstration and the scientific experiment that helped to uncover and shape this philosophy. The Aha moment was that there is so much behind it. - Those guys implemented about anything there is about an operating system and application tools, and -- what is even more impressive -- in each of those fields (typesetting, fonts, chess, languages, and so on for a long time), they went deep and invented there as well. Such a small group and so hugely much and deep output! meillo