On 10 December 2013 19:52, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us> wrote:
On 12/10/2013 11:34 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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> I once heard Tony Hoare say that in the early days the computer was the
> size of a room and the documentation would fit in your pocket, but now
> it's the other way round. And that was a good 30 years ago.
Except that all of the paper documentation you have is a few pages that tell
you how to turn it on and set it up. The rest is either on-disk or on-line
where you can't get to it when you need it the most.
What documentation? (And no, it's not just a dig at FOSS.)
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