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

[Steve Nickolas]

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019, Doug McIlroy wrote:

> For a contrast in aha moments, consider this introduction to
> an early Apple (Apple II, I think).
>
> When my wife got one, my natural curiosity led me to try to
> make "Hello world".
>
> I asked her what to use as an editor and learned it all depends
> on what you're editing.
>
> So I looked in the manual. First thing you do to make a C program
> is to set up a "project", as if it was a corporate undertaking.
>
> I found it easier to write a program in some other editor than
> the one for C. Bad idea. Every file had a type and that editor
> produced files of some type other than C program.
>
> After succumbing to the Apple straitjacket, I succeeded.
>
> Then I found "Hello world" given as an example in the manual.
> The code took up almost a page; real men make programs that
> set up their own windows.
>
> Aha, Apple! Not intended for programmers.
> And that didn't change until OS X.
>
> Doug
>

That sounds like Macintosh rather than Apple ][.

-uso.