Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Unsettling bash tutorial Date: 17 Mar 2026 00:36:06 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <10otpi4$1opu8$3@dont-email.me> <10otrqi$1p9ft$1@dont-email.me> <10ou2q9$1qp29$1@dont-email.me> <10p3fhf$5tmi$1@dont-email.me> <10p3soo$9ojl$2@dont-email.me> <10p4nqe$jufq$1@dont-email.me> <10p9p7v$2ag8r$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net qbfqtF3K0uW/xpl+aUdiSwEy3asZrnyrSksshMlqdaLrJh7Oef Cancel-Lock: sha1:HFDs4HO+7uiIyVAQCdH6xMWJrBg= sha256:n1DVIM42uBpTD8eAx9SxVa7yuSt/Sdaa/sNR0AjBFS4= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.unix.shell:26787 comp.os.linux.misc:83164 On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:02:45 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2026-03-16, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > >> I learned that you could use them to write books from a famous SF >> author from a column in Analog SF magazine. He was using CPM which was >> not a cheap thing at the time. > > Sounds like Jerry Pournelle. His regular Byte column was fun to read, > at least until it turned into an endless account of trying to get > Windows boxes to work. He gave each of his computers a name; the IBM PC > was called Lucy because he found that, like the Peanuts comic strip > character, it was quite a fussbudget. I miss him and I also miss the era when Byte was more hardware oriented with Ciacia's column. iirc he thought the sun rose on WordPerfect. Damn Small Linux includes quite a few lightweight applications, one of which is AbiWord. I don't have a use for a word processor but that one is more my speed than LibreOffice, OpenOffice, or OneOffice. I did use WordStar since it was bundled on a CP/M machine and was better that vi (the real Bill Joy vi).