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From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 06:48:24 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [COFF] In Memoriam: Jay W. Forrester, happy birthday Gene Amdahl,
 and LSD
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On Mon, 18 Nov 2019, Clem Cole wrote:

> The cat was already out and poking around with the publishing of:  IBM 
> 360 Principles of Operation, DOC A22-6821-0. The APL version of spec 
> just gave it more area to roam.

Yeah, I know about PrincOps; it went into excruciating detail, leading to 
the observation that IBM manuals were designed to impress rather than 
inform...

-- Dave