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On 2026-08-28 21:37, Paul wrote:
> On Fri, 8/28/2026 12:25 PM, Maria Sophia wrote:
>> Maria Sophia wrote:


> This is one of the differences at Apple. Historically, they had
> "Inside Macintosh". The format and presentation, is preserved
> in TN (Technical Notes). Some of the notes are fantastically good.
> I wrote a partition manager once for my Mac disk, and I could
> do that using a *single* TN, didn't have to read anything else.
> (This was after gparted impressed me by utterly destroying the partition table.)
> When they choose to document something, it's not a half hearted
> effort on their part. The efforts are usually "better than Wikipedia"
> level of technical notes. The way someone might explain a thing
> to you in a USENET post. Whereas the Microsoft documentation
> is unimaginative "the boss is beating me with a stick to write
> this description" flavored documentation, the best kind of
> documentation when you really needed charitably written material.

I bought a book named something like "undocumented windows" long ago. 
That was w3.11, I think. Also the Programmers Reference, the User Guide 
and Reference for MsDos 5...

-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.
        ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺.