Ron Collison (and anyone else): XENIX

From: Peter Hicks <Peter.Hicks_at_POGGS.CO.UK>
Date: Thu Jan 16 01:42:25 2003

ben franchuk wrote:

>> I still get nostalgic moments when I think about minix and xenix and
>> the time when I knew what every single program in /usr/bin actually
>> was :-)
>
> Or try and find where stuff like doc's are put now days. Open source
> is good but the Doc's need to be improved.

It isn't quantity, its quality - having lots of documentation is useless
if its not decent documentation.

Take the docs I have for a big company's SQL server. They say to enable
SNMP support, you click a checkbox, but there's no sign of it anywhere,
and furthermore, nothing more than the briefest of brief mentions of
what their SNMP implementation provides.

(ob-cc) My ancient BBC 'B' came with enough technical documentation to
go completely over my head about 18 years ago!


Peter.
Received on Thu Jan 16 2003 - 01:42:25 GMT