In some quarters, it is popular to grumble about how much better thingswere back in the good old days of computers, Unix, or whatever. I don'thold with this view at all; I think that the modern age is great, andnow I'll tell you one reason why.

I started working with Unix systems what is now quite a long timeago. Back in those days, you couldn't get SCCS without paying extramoney to AT&T (and sometimes you couldn'

(Every so often I feel like stating outright something that I havepreviously mentioned in asides in other entries. Today is one of thosetimes.)

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