30 May
2005
30 May
'05
10:34 a.m.
[8088 vs 8086, Glayes vs Hayes, volt vs Watt]
If an author can't get simple, well-known, basic details like this
correct then as far as I'm concerned, the rest of the book is crap
I've seen wonderful readable technical/historical articles completely
demolished by incompetent editing in cahoots with wild spell-checking.
The book's from 1988, which is when this phenomenon was at its worst.
Far enough along that an editor would have a spell-checker plus
perhaps a brother-in-law who was an "expert" on the technical
subject, but way before they would fire the edited manuscript back
to the original author for final approval.
So while it may be the author, and a GOOD EDITOR might correct
such technical mistakes, I think it's far more likely that a BAD
EDITOR did the damage.
Tim.