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

Richard Salz wrote in <CAFH29tq=Mfk9RQNchoT+a7XzR3+qpUuBZA9_Mr1OL7RAYFW_\ Xw(a)mail.gmail.com&gt;: |My first Unix-related AHA moment was working through the sample code \ |in the BSD 4.1c networking tutorial and having two unrelated processes \ |that I wrote communicate.  Without a pipe!  (I'd already used |Unix for a few years and didn't think twice, it was just a natural \ |fit.  But sockets, woah.) Oh yes, and having a single-threaded HTTP server which could serve small static files to hundreds (128) of (test) clients concurrently on a Cyrix 166, simply by using non-blocking I/O and select(2) (through event driven C++ objects). (And by that time i think / seem to recall from computer magazine article JAVA implemented such I/O / xy monitors by creating a thread of execution, and the select(2) Cygwin code that i have seen was _so_ complicated and expensive, it was a real Aha!, just like in Kate Bush's "Wow".) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)