> I've probably posted this before, but Neal Stephenson wrote an essay
> (overstuffed like everything he writes) discussing the relative
> cultural appeal of different operation systems, and he adroitly
> captures the allure of unix. You can skip to that part by searching
> for the first occurrence of "linux":
>
> http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.shtml
Urp, make that the paragraph with the first occurrence of "MPW".
-- Andy