On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Noel Chiappa via TUHS wrote:
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
And of course it's not going to help much if you want to do something
weirder, like see if you can pull it up on x86 (which is what I'd like to
do with it) xD
Though perhaps some of the same steps may apply...
-uso.