Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 20:23:11 -0500 (EST) From: "Paul O. Bartlett" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: BASIC & EMS (Virtual Memory) In-Reply-To: <20001207.035952.-313245.1.domanspc@juno.com> Message-ID: X-PGP-keyid: 0xF383C8F9 X-PGP-fingerprint: E62D2E2C7BCD08CB B742A93726A91532 Organization: SmartNet Private Account MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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. -- Paul mailto:bartlett AT smart DOT net .......................................................... Paul O. Bartlett, P.O. Box 857, Vienna, VA 22183-0857, USA Keyserver (0xF383C8F9) or WWW for PGP public key Home Page: http://www.smart.net/~bartlett