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tbyehl
756 days ago
Back in the day, Microsoft shipped a figurative ton of documentation. I remember my dad coming home with this monstrosity:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/917478/microsofts-biggest-so...
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markus_zhang
756 days ago
I really wish we had these manuals nowadays. However we are in the mentality of fast iteration so it's probably a bad idea.
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steve1977
756 days ago
A lot of this is there at learn.microsoft.com
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markus_zhang
756 days ago
Yeah, but holding a book feels better. Maybe I'm just old style :/ I printed myself a few manuals.
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Spooky23
756 days ago
That’s nothing! When I was an IBM/Tivoli administrator, they’d ship about 12 linear feet of manuals every 9-12 months.
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