Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Re: nroff terminal drivers - more he - (nf) Message-ID: <13500009@ea.UUCP> Date: Fri, 13-Apr-84 23:20:00 EST Article-I.D.: ea.13500009 Posted: Fri Apr 13 23:20:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Apr-84 01:35:52 EST References: <258@basser.UUCP> Lines: 36 Nf-ID: #R:basser:-25800:ea:13500009:000:1254 Nf-From: ea!mwm Apr 13 22:20:00 1984 #R:basser:-25800:ea:13500009:000:1254 ea!mwm Apr 13 22:20:00 1984 /***** ea:net.unix-wizar / basser!chris / 6:45 pm Apr 6, 1984 */ Some of us like it that way, you know. I don't think anyone ever thought that ATT (or especially Bell Labs) had some responsibilty to make life easy for morons. (Boo-hoo). Innovative programmers need salesmen sitting on them like they need more orifices in their skulls. My case rests. Chris Maltby University of Sydney (and loving it) /* ---------- */ Who said anything about making life easy for morons? Somebody merely wants to not HAVE to be a Unix wizard to get work done. Of course, 90% of the documentation assumes that you have the source and are proficient in C, so they leave 70% of the documentation in their source. So if you don't have a source license, even being a Unix wizard is no great help. And no, I won't to buy a $43K source license for my $9K 68000 box. Likewise, nobody said anything about making programmers write documentation [God pity the poor user (non-programmer) who has to use such docs]. What do you think technical writers are for? Actually, it would be nice if AT&T started acting like they were selling a commercial product, instead of shipping tapes with notes & wishes for luck in them.