21 Oct
2019
21 Oct
'19
10:16 p.m.
Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
[...] What was your "ahah" moment when you
first saw that Unix was special, especially compared to the systems
you'd previously used?
Not particularly serious, but still enlightening, was the first time
I did:
cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
on Linux and had white noise come out of the speaker. It was one of the
first things that made me realize how far the "everything is a file"
concept can be taken.
OK, Unix-like moment.
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Dario Niedermann. Also on the Internet at:
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