Re: Walnut Creek CD-ROM
+1, and before Walnut Creek there was simtel20.arpa, which I used over a 2400 baud PSN via a node at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment. In those high and far-off times, O Best Beloved, our pride and joy was a microcomputer running CP/M, with not one but two 5.25 in floppy disk drives!!1! This was necessary, because the OS itself was housed on the first, leaving the second for data transfer via TFN (Tossed Floppy Network). Many of the utilities grabbed from simtel20 improved our productivity enormously. I particularly recall one which was just called 'do'. It had sub-commands which achieved many of the things that sort, cut, join, and uniq do in GNU. Good times, looking back.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
