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

Larry W. Cashdollar larry0 at me.com
Sat Oct 12 03:48:59 AEST 2019


>On 10/10/19, 4:56 PM, "TUHS on behalf of Warren Toomey" <tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org on behalf of wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
    
 >  So I'll kick off another thread. What was your "ahah" moment when you
 >first saw that Unix was special, especially compared to the systems you'd
> previously used?

When I first typed ps -x and saw all the running processes on the system.  That was on a Dec Alpha at the university of southern Maine in the computer science lab.   I thought to myself I need this on my PC.  A few weeks later my friend pointed me at Slackware.     

-- Larry C$
    
    





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