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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <006fa3e1$0$11539$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 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.

You mean like the "learn" utility on early versions of Unix?  Did VMS
ever have an equivalent?

bill

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