[TUHS] owner maintenance (Re: The era of general purpose computing (Re: AIX moved into maintainance mode

[Larry McVoy]

That book was AWESOME.  I'm pretty sure the intro talked about warming
up your VW and said "the time to roll a joint is just about long enough".

More seriously, I wish all manuals were written like that, I learned a
ton from that book.  The Honda one wasn't as good.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 06:20:20PM -0600, Charles H Sauer (he/him) wrote:
> Before Lions, before the Epoch even, there was Muir's Compleat Idiot manual
> (https://technologists.com/photos/1960s/fullsize/1969JohnMuir.jpg) which
> suited me well until it didn't. Charlie
> 
> On 1/19/2023 5:51 PM, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> >To be fair I didn't necessarily just have UNIX in mind with that
> >statement, I also mean whats happening to appliances, vehicles, etc. It's
> >part of a bigger problem, we're just of course mostly discussing the
> >implications of that problem vis-a-vis UNIX. Believe me, I also wish I
> >could peer under the hood of a modern car and tell you how to actually
> >replace something in there with just a socket and a set of pliers...
> >
> >- Matt G.
> >
> >------- Original Message -------
> >On Thursday, January 19th, 2023 at 3:44 PM, Rich Salz
> ><rich.salz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>    In my mind there would probably be a strong correlation between
> >>    engineers making products unnecessarily complicated (whether they
> >>    want to or not) and end users deciding en masse not to sink the
> >>    time into learning how to maintain increasingly convoluted and
> >>    esoteric designs.
> >>
> >>
> >>To me, the biggest surprise about Unix history is that the Bell patent
> >>office secretaries were able to use ed and [nt]roff. I cannot imagine
> >>the general populace doing that.
> >>
> >>Folks on this list will be fine, there will always be programming
> >>environments for us. For the rest of the world, simpler is better and
> >>simpler isn't Unix.
> >
> 
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