Nah, this was on my centos days, my old man was working with them so I used to always be playing with linux distros, used to get the odd linux magazines that would come with a fedora release and the odd redHat IIRC. They would have a whole section on how to install them too.. Slackware was something of a challenge for me as a kid..

If I'm not mistaken though NC was the predecessor of MC!