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109 points by ingve on Jan 23, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


> it omits certain things while documenting other things that appear to be fictional

This describes nearly all engineering documentation I've seen. In many cases hobbyists having reverse-engineered how something works are better off than if they had been given the official documentation.


I assume this happens when something is designed to do a thing, documentation is written, then the design is updated or bugs fixed or flow changed to handle a situation, and documentation never gets redone to match.


I can imagine it being intentional too: You can tell whether the documentation was illegally used to create a competitor.


Someone somewhere must have the Windows 3.0 DDK, I wonder if anyone has asked Raymond Chen ?




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