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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 i
by 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 agoThe 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.