On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Bill Fairchild <[email protected]> wrote:

> Adding paper updates (TNLs) to paper manuals (SRL) every few months was a 
> major agony (PITA).

Right... we introduced "demand paging" for manuals in the 80's. The
TNL was simply put in front of the binder, leaving the merge to the
first one who actually needed the book (and was kind enough to take
the duty). It's amazing how many books we discarded with the TNL's
unmerged...

The only one I really missed were the control block books. I never
managed to get used to softcopy versions of sticking punch cards
between the relevant pages while reading a dump :-)

Rob

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