Your comment caught me off guard and made me laugh out loud. There were so many things about those early systems which were not universal skills at all, but si

Your comment caught me off guard and made me laugh out loud. There were so many things about those early systems which were not universal skills at all, but simply hardware limitations (or holdovers from previous hardware limitations - or just terrible design). And yet, after watching my kid learning to use a computer, I do feel a deep nostalgia for the single-purpose simplicity of the command line I grew up with.