On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:42:26 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: >Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:55:55 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: >> >>> The story, as told by John Ehrman, is that the POO got so big, it broke >>> the book build software and nobody at IBM has the time, inclination, or >>> knowledge to fix it. :-( >>> >> Was it for similar reasons that SMP/E, Assembler Services, perhaps >> others, went to multiple volumes? I bet that makes cross-references >> harder. > >In the old days, books were printed on paper and usually placed into a >three-ring binder. When they got too big, the authors split them into >multiple volumes. > Gee, it feels almost as if the design target of the book build software was the capacity of that three-ring binder.
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