I was on a gigantic Sequent machine with hundreds of users at UIUC.
When I got my account, I given a user agreement paper with rules and regulations that, at the very bottom, had a dozen or so commands on it. There were some very terse and cryptic descriptions. ("cd: change directory; man: read a manual page; ps: print running processes; grep: search for a string")
Eventually I bootstrapped my way up to doing "ps -augx" to see what other people were running. Then I would try whatever they were doing.
When I got my account, I given a user agreement paper with rules and regulations that, at the very bottom, had a dozen or so commands on it. There were some very terse and cryptic descriptions. ("cd: change directory; man: read a manual page; ps: print running processes; grep: search for a string")
Eventually I bootstrapped my way up to doing "ps -augx" to see what other people were running. Then I would try whatever they were doing.