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by 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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I really wish we had these manuals nowadays. However we are in the mentality of fast iteration so it's probably a bad idea.
A lot of this is there at learn.microsoft.com
Yeah, but holding a book feels better. Maybe I'm just old style :/ I printed myself a few manuals.
That’s nothing! When I was an IBM/Tivoli administrator, they’d ship about 12 linear feet of manuals every 9-12 months.