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> And you needed it in your head, because finding the information you needed in the massive single document man file reference was a pain That's what the O'Rei
by timthorn 3y ago
> And you needed it in your head, because finding the information you needed in the massive single document man file reference was a pain
That's what the O'Reilly books were for, especially the Nutshell series.
- jghn 3y agoI remember capturing every password at my university via "methods". Because we had a printer quota. In the summer when everyone was gone I printed out all the man pages (all the mans, the system libraries, etc) so I'd have a nice reference book. I made sure to make it so no one was charged any money. The one thing people can't possibly fathom if they started coding after the mid-late 90s was how much we relied on the printed medium.
- chx 3y agoI still remember when we measured the documentation IBM shipped with the mainframes not in pages but in yards it occupied on the shelves. It was a lot.
- fuzztester 3y agoThe Unleashed and Bible series of books come to mind. Waite group or Sams or so, publishers. Rather Waite-y.
- cafard 3y agoOracle used to be hard on your lower back, within the last 25 years.