[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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