[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

Paul Sture nospam at sture.ch
Sat Feb 2 13:55:20 EST 2013


In article <an4q23FbfmgU3 at mid.individual.net>,
 billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:

> Considering the complaints about text formating in man pages and
> the repeated grammar and spelling corrections seen here and in
> other technical groups, just when did computer science become the
> domain of frustrated english teachers?

See recent posts about Eternal September...

:-)

More seriously, for me as a Brit the VMS and other DEC documentation 
always shone because it used correct and proper English where the 
competition let US slang and phraseology creep in.

-- 
Paul Sture



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