Subject: Linux-Activists - DOC Channel digest. 93-6-8-19:42
From: "Linux Activists" <[email-masked]>
To: "Linux-Activists" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 01:00:18 +0300

Topics:
	 Re: Linux-Activists - DOC Channel digest. 93-6-8-14:22 

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From: Lar Kaufman <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Linux-Activists - DOC Channel digest. 93-6-8-14:22 
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 21:03:09 +0300

Section 9 is the "traditional" place for kernel-level
stuff and it is an excellent decision to put those pages
there.  Section 9 is where Encore Computer put parallel
processing manpages for the MACH kernel, and that section
designation survived and was passed to the OSF when they
acquired the technology from Encore; it is in use for such
purposes by OSF members.  (The general public generally
doesn't get to see these pages, of course, since they don't
normally do kernel programming.)  

It is a thrill to see my sole contribution to UNIX
perpetuated, since I was the tech writer with the arrogance
to initially create section 9 manpages. 

-lar

Chair, Committee for Common Man,
(and former tech writer for Encore Computer Corp.)

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