[TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Wed Mar 29 11:45:10 AEST 2017


    > From: Grant Taylor

    > However, I've had to teach enough people to know that they need a way to
    > boot strap themselves into an environment to start learning.

Right, but wouldn't they learn more from a clear and concise hand-holding
which explains what they are doing and why - 'do this which does that to get
this'?

There is no more a royal road to knowing a system, than there is to
mathematics.

    > I do consider what (I believe) Warren put together for the UUCP project
    > to be a very good start.  Simple how to style directions that are easy
    > to follow that yield a functional system.

Exactly....

	Noel



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