[Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS

[JF Mezei]

Michael Kraemer wrote:

> Back to the point: Neither VMS Help nor Unix man pages
> are appropriate for learning either OS from scratch.


Learning an OS or a language (spoken) reminds me of a jet engine when it
is started.  It needs external assist (compressed air, or in the case of
the 787, electricity) to start it spinning, and at first, it just spins
slowly without being productive at all.

But once it has gone beyond a certain point, they start in inject fuel
and ignite it and it starts to spin at low setting on its own, no longer
needing external assist, and once warmed up, it can be increased to full
thrust for takeoff.

You need to have a core knowledge of an OS first. How to edit files,
where files are located, how system startup works (which files are
executed etc). Once you know the basics, you can then learn the rest by
yourself and eventually, you learn very fast. Towards the end, you end
up just needing to fine tune stuff, learning tidbits over time.