10 Aug
2006
10 Aug
'06
3:16 p.m.
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Jules Richardson wrote:
as author of a 3rd party manual, . . .
The OEM factory service manuals are absolutely essential as
reference materials for professionals.
OTOH, if somebody needs to be instructed how to do the work,
then a 3rd party manual is also needed, since a good factory
service manual assumes a professional level of competence.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred (NIASE cert) cisin at xenosoft.com
To make it on topic, I've found exactly the same
thing with classic computers
- with something that sold tens of thousands or more the bugs tend to get
ironed out; with something that hardly sold at all there can be all sorts of
errors. (that seems to be tied to the machine class though - e.g. mainframe
designers *know* that they won't sell many, so they set aside time to get the
service docs right and that gets reflected in the cost)
A reasonable assumption. BUT,... by that logic, Windoze is bug-free??
I've never
had any use for the 3rd party manuals.
See above, though. Sometimes I've found
them useful as a cross-reference.
You're right though in that it's worth having a copy of the official docs if
they're available.