you should have seen the stack of manuals we got with our IBM 4381s - needed a whole room to store them in. and they were great.
as for unix, i learned most from a very cheap book written by mike banahan, which told you everything you reallly needed to know - everything is a file etc.
i actually worked with mike for several years at the instruction set - not always easily:
me: why do i have to work with mike???
my boss: because you are the only person in the company that hasn't tried to strangle him.
i suppose i'm too nice - much the same was said when i was a microbiology technician in edinburgh in the 1970s regarding one of the consultants, about whom i did have serious death-plans.
as for unix, i learned most from a very cheap book written by mike banahan, which told you everything you reallly needed to know - everything is a file etc.
i actually worked with mike for several years at the instruction set - not always easily:
me: why do i have to work with mike???
my boss: because you are the only person in the company that hasn't tried to strangle him.
i suppose i'm too nice - much the same was said when i was a microbiology technician in edinburgh in the 1970s regarding one of the consultants, about whom i did have serious death-plans.