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There's always a different amount of power boost for steering or vacuum assist. Depends on what the manufacturer wanted. Changing steering assist is usually as easy as changing the regulator spring in the power steering pump.
Only car I recall driving with manual brake - single cylinder master - all drum, was a Ford... Fairlane? 500? From the 60s. Between the no power nothing, loose steering, and IIRC bias ply's - basically no brakes, no steering, and no seat belts - that thing was a death trap. Test driving it up and down the block was a lot of fun, but 'fun' as in 'I'm probably gonna die' kind of fun. I grant, if it had good tires and tight steering it would be better. But if it was my car, it would get, at minimum, vacuum boost power brakes with a double cylinder master. And good tires and tight steering. Maybe seat belts, maybe. No power steering wasn't that bad in that car, it just made parallel parking a pain in the arms.
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