[Info-vax] Unix equivalent of a mailbox device ?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <0087ca90$0$1589$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> Many thanks to all who contributed to this. As there is no UNIX "wall",
> finding out how unix works and finding the doc isn't so easy.

   My first ULTRIX came with a couple grey shelves.  Seemed kinda
   sparse.  A full copy of the man pages was included, so having
   them on disk just made htem faster to access, not more inclusive.

   I've run into lots of things I needed to know that weren't in the
   man pages.  There was an assumption that you had bought BSD with
   the source if you needed those details, which commercial UNIX hadn't 
   really addressed.

   We could afford the fiche for VMS at the time, but not a UNIX
   source license.  Redefined the concept of "open" for us.  But we 
   only had to use the VMS fiche when we were reading crash dumps
   while supporting customer hardware.  VMS user and API documentation
   was always complete.

   I was very disappointed in getting documentation from DEC that didn't
   seem to hold up to there usual standard.  That was the begining of
   a trend.

   Linux essentially fixes that, since it looks like UNIX but is
   open source.  And other UNIX have gone open source, too.