NuTek Mac comes

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Fri Jul 15 10:57:46 CDT 2016


> On Jul 15, 2016, at 11:47 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 14 July 2016 at 22:43, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
>> As for VMS HELP, I don't think the tool is all that much better; what
>> is _much_ better is the documentation it contains.  DEC documentation
>> of the VMS era was _awesome_.  Even today I rarely see it equaled,
>> never mind bettered, in many ways.
> 
> 
> HELP WOMBAT

Not to mention "HELP ADVANCED WOMBAT".

Actually, if you want to see really good online help -- vastly better even than that of VMS -- take a look at PLATO.  To become a PLATO programmer, all you'd need was for the admin to hand you your login credentials along with "sit down at a terminal and follow instructions".  A logged out terminal would display "Press NEXT to begin" -- you'd do that and literally everything from that point on would be described by on-line help of one kind or another.

	paul




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