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X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 02:45:37PM -0700, Steve Johnson wrote: > > >My Aha, Unix! moment was the Unix man pages, especially that they had >a section for BUGS.  The very reality of it attracted me.  As Gloria >Steinem said, "Something doesn't have to be perfect to be >wonderful!"  I notice that on Linux the older man pages still have >BUG sections, but the newer ones don't.  Telling.   Even more >telling is that 'man python' gives you a lot of information, but at >the end where the Bugs section used to be is a section labled >"LICENSING"... > >I did have the opportunity in the early years to demonstrate Unix to >several dozen people, mostly users of the (IBM) mainframe computers >and the GE/Honeywell Time Sharing System.  The sequence that >initiated gasps, confusion, and ultimately joy was: >%  echo hello joe > hijoe >% cat hijoe >hello joe > Coming from a Multics background, my first view of Unix (sort of v7 ported to a Bull Mini6) was more like a rant: "cwd" on Multics has been renamed to a more cryptic "cd" on Unix, these guys have done worse! The Aha! came when I realized that redirections were so simple... Pierre