On: A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994)

[rswail]

A full set of Vax documentation was at least the size of the Vax. I still have my 3 volume copy of HPUX's man page.

Including the famous bug for tunefs which is still current in FreeBSD (talk about slack in addressing the real issues!):

"You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish."

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tunefs&sektion=8#e...

[PaulDavisThe1st → rswail]

The docset was large, but it was not as large as a VAX.

I had to learn VMS in a hurry in the last two months of 1986. I had the full binder set on a shelf in my toilet (Cambridge, UK). You could not have put a VAX in there :)

[a1369209993 → rswail]

> "You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish."

Well of course not; that would be "tunefsh", which no one has gotten around to writing.