[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Bob Eager]

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:16:32 +0100, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:

> JF Mezei wrote 2011-11-23 18:58:
>> Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>>> This is on part number QA-001AA-GZ "OVMS Full Documentation".
>>
>>
>> Is there a separate line item for the documentation CDs ?
>>
>>
>> The question becomes whethyer paper documentation remains available for
>> purchase (say you have a new customer) or whether it will be digital
>> only.
>>
>>
>>> BTW: Personally, while I use online resources for reference material,
>>> I still prefer to use paper for tutorial/conceptual type reading when
>>> a paper option is available. Am I alone in this ?
>>
>> Paper is often better unless you have 5 displays on your desktop :-(
>> paper is also necessary when you do work at the SRM level or very low
>> level (such as SYSBOOT) where your system has not booted sufficiently
>> for you to access on-line documentation.
> 
> Bull...
> 
> Everyone professionall enough reads the PDFs on a laptop or similar, not
> on the target system you are supporting, of course.

I've put some of them on my Kindle!



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