The interesting thing about using #Haikuos for a while tonight was how deeply it brought back warm 90's feelings when I was a die hard OS/2 user.

I didn't have the cash back then to get a system that could run BeOS, so I missed this in its first incarnation. I knew a lot of Amiga folk who jumped to it though.

If I get nothing else out of this, it's the reminder that there was a time before everything was set in stone. 99.9% (being conservative) of what we do with computers now is pure abstraction, but we get locked into these ruts of how things work.

I'm now inching dangerously closer to installing Plan 9 / 9front somewhere.