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From: plouff@kali.enet.dec.com (Wes Plouff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: DEC Documentation? Hahaahahahahahahhhhaaaaaaaa
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Date: 18 Jun 91 20:11:15 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.142942.2952@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes...
>Warning: rampant anti-DEC flame. Respect followups.
> 
>That would be a nice change from their documentation, AKA the "Orange Wall".
  Out of date.  Now gray.

>Oh, individual sections are well written, use proper english, are very clear,
>and so on... but there's no usable cross-reference, no reference section
>worth the name (they seem to think people should be able to use a tutorial
>as a reference manual), and so on. 
  The _VMS General User's Manual_, order number AA-LA98A-TE, contains both 
  tutorial and reference sections, much like the old blue Osborne 1 manual.

>Every time I want to do something on the
>damned VAXes it's hell finding out what I need. Even something as simple as
>a terminal server comes with 3 volumes!
  Not since April.  (hee, hee!)  Read the newspapers...

Please note my affiliation.  Also, no slight intended to Peter Da Silva. 
This posting is just to inject a few facts into the discussion.
-- 
Wes Plouff, Digital Equipment Corp, Maynard, Mass.
plouff@kali.enet.dec.com

Networking bibliography:  _Islands in the Net_, by Bruce Sterling
			  _The Matrix_, by John S. Quarterman