vbajaj on Thu, 7 Jan 1999 12:23:46 -0500 (EST)


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Re: New User trying to get up and running


> 
> Another thing us old fogeys remember dimly is COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENTATION.
> Like the five feet of blue notebooks you got when you bought a PDP-11.
> Everything there was to know about that machine and the RSX-11 or whatever
> OS was in those notebooks.  It may not have been open source but
> physics grad students like me had no trouble hand building direct hardware
> interfaces to the bus, performing direct device I/O, etc.  Them days is
> gone forever.

Look in /usr/doc, /usr/doc/HOWTO;  see http://sunsite.unc.edu/linux for the
Linux Programming, Linux Kernel Internals, Linux Device Driver, and various
other internals books.  

--Vik

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