Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 05:02:55 -0600 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: jgrosch@superior.truenorth.org Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestion for the FreeBSD Book. Message-ID: <199701291102.FAA24707@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199701290936.BAA22567@superior.truenorth.org> References: <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.970129104742.24858A-100000@csd>
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In article <199701290936.BAA22567@superior.truenorth.org>, Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.truenorth.org> wrote: >Another down side to the 3-ring binder for the vendor is the ease of >copying the docs. In a past life I did a lot of work on VAX/VMS, `round the >time 4.7. At a number of sites I saw the client buy one copy of the >documentation set and allow the programmers to xerox as many copies as they >wanted. Often there were 30 or 40 copys floating around the site. Of course the way DEC treated, and still treats, the issue of decent on-line documentation made that more or less inevitable. If you were a reasonable sized site you'd have ended up spending more on the docs than you did on the operating system. In fact I just spent more on the docs for a DEC terminal server than I did for the software they documented, and that was one copy, so they're still doing it.
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