David G. Miller wrote:
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@...> writes:
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:13 AM, David G. Miller <dave@...> 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.
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