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.