[jancsika]

> The endgame for any living being is maximize return for as minimal effort.

Sure, OG hackers don't want to waste 30 seconds walking to the printer if their print job isn't ready.

But OG hackers solve that problem by spending three hundred million seconds writing an entire OS from scratch.

And in the end, I'm not even sure if that solved the original problem.

Of course you wouldn't be wrong by seven orders of magnitude in the more common cases. But I strongly doubt that Haiku, the Quine that works in dozens of languages at once, or Gnome 2 started their work to fatten up for the coming winter months.