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Subject: Re: [TUHS] What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment?
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I started using  cards with a sperry univac scientific mainframe, the ibm mainframes with block terminals and later ibm  "midrange" computers, when I finally got a network programming job on a SNI Unix system. Finally I felt free, I had the 'I can do what ever I want' feelingup to today.