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

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019, Doug McIlroy wrote: For me Unix felt like something that took the best parts of MS-DOS (which I was very familiar with) and improved on them - plus I knew / as a path separator from ProDOS on the Apple ][ (you can probably see where I'm going) ;p. I later learned that this was because MS-DOS, while it was growing out of its "CP/M clone" phase, had pinched a lot of things from Unix and so this similarity was not a coincidence. But what MS-DOS has to fumble around with and pretend to do, Unix actually *did*. Not to mention, it had, like the Apple ][ and unlike MS-DOS, a single environment that combined a command shell and a programming language. Plus the network transparency. It was the best of both worlds. -uso. Random: One of my laptops' Windows 10 install ate itself due to a bum update a couple days ago. I had left Windows on it when I got it because I'd heard that the company's laptops that were not in a specific product line would not run Linux properly. Actually, it was no problem at all, so it's running Debian now. I also have a broken laptop that runs Debian headless. I know it's not the real thing, but it'll suffice me. ;p