From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] General question about hosted interfaces
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 17:32:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ad001c10bb1$09afd600$c0b7c6d4@SOMA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B4F052A.56A2AAAA@null.net>
From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
> Partly, it's a difference in the user population. In the Good Old Days,
> a noticeable fraction of the controllers went to sites that needed the
> detailed documentation. E.g. in order to write a UNIX device driver,
> which was originally not such an intimidating task as it is now.
absolutely. the pdp and vax docs were succint, correct and the
h/w was pretty much sane as opposed to, say, vga hell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-13 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-12 21:48 bwc
2001-07-13 14:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-13 15:32 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
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2001-07-12 21:58 jmk
2001-07-12 19:51 geoff
2001-07-12 19:45 geoff
2001-07-12 19:31 jmk
2001-07-12 21:09 ` Chris Locke
2001-07-12 21:24 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-12 22:01 ` Jim Choate
2001-07-12 18:38 nemo
2001-07-12 15:26 jmk
2001-07-12 18:14 ` Chris Locke
2001-07-13 14:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-13 15:28 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-13 16:46 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-14 0:40 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-11 10:54 forsyth
2001-07-11 10:58 ` Lucio De Re
2001-07-11 13:26 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-11 10:32 geoff
2001-07-12 8:31 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-11 0:37 presotto
2001-07-10 18:22 rob pike
2001-07-10 19:08 ` Mike Haertel
2001-07-10 23:27 ` William K. Josephson
2001-07-11 8:34 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-10 15:17 Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-10 18:09 ` Lucio De Re
2001-07-11 8:34 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
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