[CentOS] A question

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

David G. Miller wrote:
> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at ...> writes:
>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:13 AM, David G. Miller <dave at ...> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Red Hat Linux is ancient.
>> > <SNIP>
>> > I started with Red Hat Linux 5 in 1998.  Mind your manners when
>> > calling RHL 9 ancient or I'll come over and hit you with my walker.
>>
>> In computer years, that's like a century ago.
>>
> <SNIP>
> I guess that means the IBM and CDC mainframes I started out on in the '70s
> and '80s were prehistoric.  Funny thing is that an application I helped
write
> in the early 1980s was still being used by the customer in the mid-1990s
(long
> story how I found out).  It had been ported from the original platform (IBM

Yep. 370, timeshare, 4300's....

> S/370) to a SUN workstation and the customer still loved it.  Wouldn't
> surprise me if they aren't still using it.  After all, they still fly
> B-52s that are even older.

>> But real books don't have that 'search' box up at the top...
> <SNIP>
> Agree with one of the other responders about that's what the index is for.
>  One of my "tests" for a book on the subject is to go to the index and
>  see how easy it is to find the answers to some of the questions I have
> that have moved me to buy a book on the subject.

Reminds me of the *only* O'Reilly book I didn't like: I think it was
Larry's original book on Perl - the index was *dreadful*, couldn't find
anything.

     mark