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by PaulDavisThe1st
2111 days ago
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One of my first tasks as a systems programmer for the Schlumberger corporation in 1986 was to rewrite the VMS help command for use on SunOS. As it turns out, my rewritten version ran nearly twice as fast as the VMS version on VMS. That design (a nested heirarchy of help topics/subtopics, with some navigation hacks to make getting around easier) was quite good. But then came hypertext in the form of the web, and at that point, the "help" command just looks like crap. |
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