[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-03-08, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 3/8/2022 6:45 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-03-08, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So, you were born with this knowledge about Linux?
>>>
>>> I do so dislike double standards ...
>>>
>>
>> Huh ????
>>
>> _WHAT_ double standards ?
>
> The discussion was about how difficult it is to learn VMS, due to having to read 
> the extensive documentation.
>
> I'm wondering how you learned Linux without reading the documentation?
>

1) I read the normal reference manual documentation, 2) I read public
discussions about specific issues I encountered, 3) I worked through
various tutorial documentation when encountering something new for the
first time and, 4) I looked at the source code if there was something
really strange going on I didn't understand.

Unlike Linux/Unix, VMS is lacking in the last three options.

Also, for more specific internals work, unlike VMS, Linux has documentation
and examples for when you want to write a device driver (or do something
else internally with Linux itself like add a new filesystem). In VMS land,
the only public documentation about the VMS internals is the I&DS manual,
the old Alpha device driver manual, and you can forget about meaningful
public device driver and internals examples for VMS.

Simon.

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