There's a lovely paper which compares Unix to Zork in both cognitive and
user motivational terms. Maybe you like Unix because it's an adventure
game? Still, I just don't think Unix will succeed as a theme park (some
small fraction of :-)
-- Bruce Cohen
user motivational terms. Maybe you like Unix because it's an adventure
game? Still, I just don't think Unix will succeed as a theme park (some
small fraction of :-)
-- Bruce Cohen
Related:
- Unix /yoo'niks/ n.
[In the authors' words, "A weak pun
on Multics";
very early on it was `UNICS'] (also `UNIX') An interactive... - VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix.
Bill Davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE... - Unix, Unix, just another Unix.
Maybe this time it'll work.
- Luc... - UNIX Shell is the Best Fourth Generation Programming Language
It is the UNIX shell that makes it possible to do applications in a small
fraction of the code and time it takes in third generation languages.
In the shell you process whole files at a time... - This is a Unix system. I can do this easy.
-- Lex,
Jurassic... - holy wars n.
[from Usenet, but may predate it;
common] n.
flame wars over religious issues. The paper by... - Unix *is* user friendly.
It's just picky about its friends... - UNIX is user friendly.
It's just selective about who its friends are... - core n.
Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of
ferrite-core memory;
now archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM...
From the same category:
- They (local authorities) are caught between the deep
blue sea of the rates and the frying-pan of the Poll... - A Jewish gentleman marries into a Gypsy family. As a wedding
gift,
her father sets him up with a chain of empty stores... - Where there's a will,
I want to be part of it... - Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.
Winslow... - A lady lost her cat, and took the cat in a little casket up to a big church
and said,
"I want you to bury my cat." And they run her off....
