There's a lovely paper which compares Unix to Zork in both cognitive and
user motivational terms. Maybe you like Unix because it's an adventure
game? Still, I just don't think Unix will succeed as a theme park (some
small fraction of :-)
-- Bruce Cohen
Related:
Unix /yoo'niks/ n.
[In the authors' words, "A weak pun
on Multic very early on it was `UNICS'] (also `UNIX') An
interactive time-sharing system invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson
after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could
play games on his scavenged PDP-7....
holy wars n.
[from Usenet, but may predate it;
common] n. flame wars over religious issues. The
paper by Danny Cohen that popularized the terms big-endian and
little-endian in connection with the LSB-first/MSB-first
controversy was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace"....