Before unix, I had only used a TRS80-III and an Atari 800. So it was my first real operating system. I think I was pretty amazed when I logged in to my account from a second location and it was the same account, somehow. Magic! I was also pretty blown away when my professor used ^T in Unipress Emacs. On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 5:25 PM Jim Capp wrote: > My “aha” moment was the discovery of man pages and the realization that > the design of the entire system, from inodes to tty drivers were freely > available at my fingertips for perusal. > > It was like having an operating system design course “on-line”, and what a > beautiful design!!! > > Cheers, > > Jim > > > On Oct 10, 2019, at 5:11 PM, SPC wrote: > > > El jue., 10 oct. 2019 22:56, Warren Toomey escribió: > >> >> 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? >> >> Mine was: Oh, I can: >> + write a simple script >> > > Me too. But in adittion and specially: > > + the availability of the C compiler > + syslog > > Regards > Sergio Pedraja > >