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I have learned unix with sunOs in 1990. Man pages were excellent. The first command I learned was "man man". There was a paper version of the man pages availabl

I have learned unix with sunOs in 1990. Man pages were excellent. The first command I learned was "man man". There was a paper version of the man pages available in the computer room (among many other sun documentations). I became pissed by man pages only when I switched to linux. At that time, I have discovered the crypt(3) command by looking at the index of man pages. One week later, I had cracked 10% of passwords of the school (creating my own dictionary).

arethuza 6y ago
I remember getting new Sun workstations at that time and part of the fun of getting new Suns was taking the boxes of printed documentation that came with them and slotting them into the supplied ring folders. Later on they would ship the Adobe red/blue/green PostScript books with OpenWindows.
- rswail 6y ago
  A full set of Vax documentation was at least the size of the Vax. I still have my 3 volume copy of HPUX's man page. Including the famous bug for tunefs which is still current in FreeBSD (talk about slack in addressing the real issues!): "You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish." https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tunefs&sektion=8#end https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tunefs&sektion=8#e...
  - PaulDavisThe1st 6y ago
    The docset was large, but it was not as large as a VAX. I had to learn VMS in a hurry in the last two months of 1986. I had the full binder set on a shelf in my toilet (Cambridge, UK). You could not have put a VAX in there :)
  - a1369209993 6y ago
    > "You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish." Well of course not; that would be "tunefsh", which no one has gotten around to writing.