Am I the insane one or what?

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    Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 18:21 EST
    From: Barry Margolin <barmar@Think.COM>

	Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 16:06 EST
	From: Martin Mallinson <Martin@VEGA.cmt.dialnet.symbolics.com>

	Is it only me that thinks this is hot shit or what? 

    That example (replace-fep-block) isn't even close to the "hot shit" I've
    done with this machine!  I once spent an afternoon manually calling
    SI:DISK-READ, displaying the disk array as a string, figuring out what
    FEP file it belonged to, manually constructing a new directory file (a
    disk error had screwed up the FEP root directory) -- basically, I was
    doing the kind of stuff Norton Utilities does.

    For a good time, try (SI:PRINT-FEP-FILESYSTEM 0).

    I lose nearly all my wizardly powers when I'm forced to deal with an OS
    for which I don't have sources.  Luckily we have a SunOS source
    license (but I wish there were a SunOS Meta-dot).

My favorite "you can't do that with Unix" was patching the VM page-fault
handler on my running machine, realizing I made a mistake when I landed
in the FEP (ROM debugger, to non LispMites), and just unpatching it and
continuing!

Even with a source license I'm not sure I could do that on SunOS.