Too bad; I learned on VM/CMS. Can't beat having your own virtual machine. Didn't have to deal with JCL and the MVS stuff. Only system I liked as much as Amiga OS. Customers loved VM, so of course the suits tried to kill it and champion MVS. Meh.

Yeah, yeah you responding to this post; get off my lawn!

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Wow! Take a deep breath. The OP was using sarcasm to make his point. Although I can understand your reaction, because of the flood of corporate BS, err... doublespeak, we have been subjected to for years.
Your points are valid, and we're not all dupes of the corporations and their bribed congress critters.

Perhaps it's time to press for a Bill of Responsibilities to accompany the Bill of Rights. Things like:
When the pursuit of profit conflicts with the good of the country, it will be considered treason.

I have other thoughts along this line, but I think this is enough to illustrate what I mean and what we the people need.

Flat paper speakers. Yawn. This is old news decades ago. You can do this in your living room. I did decades ago. Interleave aluminum foil and the pages of a newspaper. Your making a capacitor. Connect the separate sheets of aluminum to the final audio amplifier in a tube amplifier. One connection to ground, the other to the anode of the final amplifier tube. And yes, there be high voltage here. You now have a talking newspaper. Slashdot is supposed to be a nerd site, why are the vast majority here unaware of this?

I see many recommendations. Let me suggest the tool to use and explore the math. APL. Powerful, easy to use, and very successfully taught to high school students.
The book, 'APL; An Interactive Approach' is a good starting point. There are many others. There are free for personal use versions of APL available.
Any questions, drop by:
comp.lang.apl

Not exactly what you asked for, but read the article by experimental physicist Dr Beau Webber.

http://www.vector.org.uk/archive/v233/webber.htm

Then decide for yourself. I've already made my choice.