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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] General question about hosted interfaces
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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.