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

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Sat Feb 2 17:26:11 EST 2013


In article <nospam-78969C.19552002022013 at news.chingola.ch>,
	Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> 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.

Not to mention humor.

UCSDP-System Architecture Guide
Appendix VI.A Glossary

RECURSION - see RECURSION.
 

bill

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