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In those good old days my Uni was giving away those bulky Unix "manuals" (after every major upgrade they were refreshing the documentation/dossiers) and they wo
by HenryBemis 1y ago
In those good old days my Uni was giving away those bulky Unix "manuals" (after every major upgrade they were refreshing the documentation/dossiers) and they would leave on a table a few dozens of the 'outdated' ones. Everyone would grab one and it was a first-come-first-served, and you could end up in a 'useless' dossier, but still they were amazing reads.
- bluGill 1y agoI miss the days of useful manuals. They were hard and expensive to write, but they had a wealth of technical information that is often impossible to find today.
- arethuza 1y agoOne of the nice things when getting a new Sun workstation back in the day (say 1990 or so) was getting vast amounts of excellent printed documentation and folders into which they had to be clipped. Sun even used to supply proper books (e.g. the PostScript books) with OpenWindows to cover NeWS...