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I still remember the first time I used Unix after a lifetime on the 8-bit home computers and DOS/Windows PCs, and typed an ampersand after a command. It took m

I still remember the first time I used Unix after a lifetime on the 8-bit home computers and DOS/Windows PCs, and typed an ampersand after a command. It took me about five minutes to convince myself that what the computer said was happening was actually happening. It was like finding an advanced alien ship with an antigravity generator and not believing it actually works.

rbanffy 5y ago
> It took me about five minutes to convince myself that what the computer said was happening was actually happening And if you were on a terminal far from the machine, you wouldn't even see or hear the computer busy at work. I remember using a windowing terminal (all text windows) that could have multiple sessions over a single RS_232 using a custom shell on the computer.
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