[Info-vax] QIO Writes to a mailbox

[Jim Duff]

On 5/11/2011 9:37 AM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <ZO6dnZAn7_CixSnTnZ2dnUVZ_hednZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>> On 11/4/2011 4:27 PM, Jose Baars wrote:
>>> On Nov 4, 8:58 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert"<rgilber... at comcast.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 11/4/2011 6:04 AM, Steve Bainbridge wrote:
>>>
>>>>    The documentation set weighs more than I do (well, ALMOST) and
>>>> takes five or six feet of shelf space!
>>>
>>> Books? I bought that interweb thingy to read them online.
>>
>> Sometimes reading on line is convenient!  Sometimes your system is down 
>> or the network is down.  THEN where is your documentation????
> 
> Some of us read that documentation when it was blue and then turned to
> orange and then went gray before the advent of the WWW.
> 

I remember as a young programmer lugging a blue manual home each night
and lugging it back in the morning until I'd read all of them.

Fascinating!  I'd never before seen such quality documentation.

Jim
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