Re: [9fans] alright, this should be interesting

["Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>]

well, all I know is that when I moved to Unix from other OSes in 1976 (I'm
old) it was a revelation from heaven. It had a major impact on how my
brain worked. Things that were just plain not doable on other OSes were
trivial on Unix. It really did change my thought processes.

Going to other OSes (OS/MVS, HP MPE, RT/11, RTE, IBM's OSes for the
Series/1 machine, RSX, etc.) I would start to feel a visceral anger at
them.  You want to know about gesture computing? You should see the
gestures I used at those OSes. I used to get so angry at HP MPE that
occasionaly I'd hit the return key a little hard and it would fly out of
the cube. I got good at repairing keyboards.

So to me, the OS is a Big Deal. The model the OS presents to me molds my
thought processes in some sense -- I guess I'm weak-minded!

Same for me with Plan 9. I keep going back to Linux and getting angry at 
it. It's really a total pain for me to use it now that I've gotten used to 
Plan 9. Keyboards are sturdier than the ones I used to have, and I'm older 
and weaker, so no big problems yet, however. Although I do keep a hunk of 
railroad rail under my desk for non-cooperative hardware ... interesting 
to see what a railroad rail will do to an IBM Deskstar.

ron