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> how any UI toolkit O'Reilly's X Window volumes are not about a toolkit, they document everything that could be relevant to someone about X Windows at the tim
by badsectoracula 4y ago
> how any UI toolkit
O'Reilly's X Window volumes are not about a toolkit, they document everything that could be relevant to someone about X Windows at the time, including the X protocol itself, the low level X library, a user's guide, the linked administrator's guide and two widget toolkits - Motif and XView - with both references and guides to them.
> once things like VB6 got off the ground.
VB6 also had a ton of documentation, to the point where it wasn't feasible to print it all. VB5 had a 1064 page reference book and a 898 page guide book, among others. Hell, even VB1 for DOS had a 510 page reference book and a 658 page guide book. And these things only discussed a fraction of what the X Windows books did.
- ghaff 4y agoI used to have shelves and shelves of books related to various Borland programming tools, DOS/PC technical references, etc. In the pre-web/broadband PC world you didn't really have the equivalent of man pages or a lot of online references generally.
- wkat4242 4y agoIf I recall correctly, even the motif part required multiple books. We had the whole set in the college library and it took up a whole shelf. I often looked in awe at it, but it didn't seem to get much use.
- badsectoracula 4y agoYeah, volumes 6a and 6b, one being the manual, the other being the reference.