[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2011-11-23, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>> This is on part number QA-001AA-GZ "OVMS Full Documentation".
>
> Is there a separate line item for the documentation CDs ?
>

Yes, the Alpha binaries/online documentation cdrom is still on the contract.

>
> The question becomes whethyer paper documentation remains available for
> purchase (say you have a new customer) or whether it will be digital only.
>

Good question. Are HP only abandoning the incremental paper updating of
VMS manuals, or are they abandoning the whole paper documentation
distribution supply chain ? I don't know.

>
>> 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.

At home, I routinely have to read through 500+ pages of a dense PDF format
reference manual for (say) a manufacturer's MCU part (I am a embedded
hobbyist) in order to put together the information I need. It looks like I
am now going to have to start doing the same thing at work.

BTW, I would not keep the PDF manuals on a server. That information should
be kept on your workstation/desktop PC/laptop. My problem here is my
preference for paper documentaion for certain things.

Thanks to everyone who answered.

Simon.

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