[lbo-talk] looking for tech writers in bay area

T Fast tfast at yorku.ca
Sat Oct 2 14:29:59 PDT 2004



> Somebody's gotta do it, and it should be done well. I finally took the
> plunge and upgraded my Mac from System 9.x to OS X. It's amazing how much
> modern software does for you, setting things up with little or no human
> intervention, with onscreen help written in clear English. You hardly need
> any documentation. The hardest part is reprogramming your own reflexes -
> re-learning movements that had become almost instinctual. But there's not
> much you can do about that. The contrast with the manuals that came with
> my first computer, a Vector Graphic CP/M thing from 1981 is amazing. That
> was three looseleaf volumes filled with mimeo'd typescript and
> incompehensible prose. Thank god you don't have to contend with crap like
> that anymore.
>
> Doug

I don't know. I wish I could get comprehensive and comprehensible documentation for my os. You pay (if you do) an exorbinant amount for xp and get next to useless, although clearly written, documentation.



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