Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.embedded,24hoursupport.helpdesk Subject: Re: List of 6000 Linux C function calls and commands Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:54:49 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1422204889 23824 24.118.110.103 (25 Jan 2015 16:54:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:54:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:277858 comp.os.linux.embedded:809 On 2015-01-25, Ezekiel wrote: > > "Grant Edwards" wrote in message > news:ma1oq5$hch$1@reader1.panix.com... >> On 2015-01-24, Ezekiel wrote: >> >>> I like to print all of this out as a hardcopy reference. Usually >>> I'll print all of this twice just in case I lose the first copy. >> >> I'm sure you're joking, > > Of course I'm joking. I actually print out three copies in case I lose both > the original and the backup. > > >> but I remember starting to do that once: print >> out all of the Unix man pages to put in 3-ring binders. I don't >> remember if I got them all printed or not. > > I used to really like computer books back in the day. But now with all the > reference material available via man pages and out on the web it's been ages > since I've bought a computer book. The other problem for books is that > things change so rapidly that a book is often out of date by the time it's > released. > > >> That was back when I was >> using a serial terminal on with V7 on a PDP-11 (no networking, no X11) >> There weren't nearly as many man pages back then, and opening a new >> xterm to read a man page wasn't an option, but I quickly learned how >> to live without hardcopy of man pages. > > I never used a PDP-11. My first *nix experience was with Ultrix running on a > MicroVAX. It ran DEC-windows so opening up multiple terminals was trivial. I > don't remember what the actual resolution was on the Ultrix workstations but > the monitors seemed amazing compared to the typical PC monitor. I remember switching from a VT-240 to a MicroVAX workstation. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Back then, there was a _huge_ difference between PC monitors (15" 1024x768 if you were _lucky_) and Sun/Apollo/uVax workstations (usually 19-21" and _much_ higher resolution). If you did mainly coding and documentation, the grayscale monitors for those workstations were _gorgeous_: larger and higher resolution than the color options. I stuck with grayscale on Sun workstations until about 2000 when I switched to Linux. That was definitly a big downgrade in display quality. I don't think I had anything equal to those old Sun grayscale monitors until many years later when I bought a 20" Samsung 206BW 1680x1050 LCD. -- Grant