[Simh] OSs with accessible documentation
Johnny Billquist
bqt at softjar.se
Sun Feb 7 06:45:01 EST 2016
On 2016-02-06 20:13, Tom Morris wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se
> <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
>
> On 2016-02-06 14:40, Sergii Kolisnyk wrote:
>
>
> at least RT-11 V5.6 docs on Bitsavers are preserved in
> electronic form,
> not scanned (PDFs are probably just distilled).
>
>
> Wow. That is just beautiful. Do you know how those came about?
>
>
> The release notes says they were prepared with VAX DOCUMENT, which makes
> sense given the relatively recent vintage.
Yes. But that is true for a lot of documentation. Scanning them still
creates bitmaps. These are obviously not scans. So, where did the
conversion from the sources into PDF happen, and where did the sources
come from?
Johnny
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