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

On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, Warren Toomey wrote: Well I've been on this list for 13 years (just checked) but I'll jump in. I've mostly lurked with probably less than 13 comments total. I had run Microware OS-9 as a teenager which is somewhat Unix like so some commands were familiar to me from the outset, but my Unix ahah moment is almost embarrassingly simple. I was trying to arrange to meet with a fellow student during 2nd year at University to work on a project. It was 1992 so neither of us had a calendar readily available. I turned to the dumbterm in front of me and said "If Unix had a calendar command I think it would be 'cal'". I typed cal and when it worked I realised I found Unix so much more intuitive than other OSes I had used in the past. I used Unix at university for the next couple of years, installed Linux at home in 1994 and a year later I founded a Unix user group[1]. At the first meeting I hoped we wouldn't run out of things to talk about. I had a lot to learn. [1] Which is still going to this day. http://www.humbug.org.au. Rob