When Unix Stops Being Fun

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-10-05 20:27, Daniela <dgw at liwest.at> wrote:
> But when I feel that I like watching TV more than playing with ASM, I
> quickly switch to the monochrome terminal emulator, deactivate the
> mouse, emulate the destructive hardware cursor, pull out a primitive
> hexeditor (or TECO) and enter raw x86 opcodes. When I'm in a
> particularly bad mood, I might also pull out the Commodore64 emulator.
>
> On the other hand, I can also create beautiful and complex 3D scenes in a
> full-blown GUI with really high-level features, which is also fun.

Ah, yes... that makes sense now.  I didn't understand what you were
saying before :)