Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 08:40:45 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A first encounter with 'vi' Message-ID: <199806191540.IAA15311@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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>Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 05:38:10 -0700 >From: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> >BTW, just an observation... the more I use BSD, the more I come to like it. > I wish there was money to be made writing BSD shareware (alas, most of it >is free or something similar can be gotten free, and the user base is small >compared to Windows) or I'd consider dumping Win95 and NT and just using >FreeBSD - every time I use it is like an adventure discovering something >new - it's truly exciting.... It has been observed (some time ago; I forget where or by whom) that "UNIX is the ultimate Adventure game." ["Adventure" is a text-mode game, in which one explores a cave, bringing back various treasures & learning things. There are points in the game where the prose becomes richly descriptive; the beginning I think I can nearly quote from memory: You are at the end of a road, near a small brick building at the top of a hill. Around you is a forest. You hear the sound of a small stream trickling somewhere below you. There's probably a version available somewhere on the Net. It was, in some respects (at least) an ancestor of the Dungeons & Dragons types of games. Of the latter, for those who are interested in such things, I suggest looking up NetHack; the current version has an X interface... and fair warning: many of the critters in the dungeon know how to use tools and things against you....] Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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