On Wed, Aug 24th, 2011 at 1:07 AM, David Cole wrote: > Way back in the 1960's when I first endeavored to learn "Assembler" > (a vague term, at best), I found that what generally was supplied by > one or two manuals in any other language, required at lest 5 or 6 for > Assembler! And that was 45 years ago!. > > It has not gotten better since.
Once upon a time (prior to softcopy manuals) we had a (new) manager dictate a "clean desk" policy. Might have been initiated by looking at the team I was in, who knows ... The rule was "no more than 2 manuals on anyones desk". I did most of the assembler - so I spend large portions of the following few days going back and forward to the manual cupboards. Drove everyone nuts, and reduced efficiency by plenty. The rule got "relaxed" fairly promptly. All this prior to Dilbert. Shane ...
