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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/9174
by tbyehl 2y 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-software-release-came-in-a-box-two-feet-long.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/917478/microsofts-biggest-so...
- markus_zhang 2y agoI really wish we had these manuals nowadays. However we are in the mentality of fast iteration so it's probably a bad idea.
- steve1977 2y agoA lot of this is there at learn.microsoft.com
- markus_zhang 2y agoYeah, but holding a book feels better. Maybe I'm just old style :/ I printed myself a few manuals.
- Spooky23 2y agoThat’s nothing! When I was an IBM/Tivoli administrator, they’d ship about 12 linear feet of manuals every 9-12 months.