Date:	Thu, 7 Dec 2000 20:23:11 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Paul O. Bartlett" <bartlett AT smart DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: BASIC & EMS (Virtual Memory)
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    A bit off topic for this list, but ..........

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Robert W Moss wrote (excerpt):

> Sometimes I think the guy's who write the manuals never 
> even saw a computer before they wote the documentation.  

    Back in the '70s and '80s -- I can speak from experience -- IBM's
manuals for their mainframe hardware and software were ghastly!  Poor
layout, poor printing, poor binding, and generally tending to
incomprehensibility.  You would have thought that an outfit the size of
IBM could have afforded some decent technical writers and typographers. 
Then, again their attitude was generally, "We are IBM.  Enough said.",
so perhaps it's not so surprising that they published such trash.  Only
trouble was, it was often the only game in town.

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