13 Sep
2007
13 Sep
'07
7:59 a.m.
On Thursday 13 September 2007 02:42:56 Scott Quinn wrote:
The good news is that the symbols (at least for
modernish interfaces)
seem to be being standardized. Be nice if they back-standardized though
for things like serial and parallel.
Another issue with words is "which $LANGUAGE" - I remember distinctly
opening up the Volvo service manual and being totally confused by
"bonnet" when I was about 12. I imagine that someone in England would
be even more confused by "hood" (since I think it means the drop-top on
a convertible over there). Symbols are fair in that they are equally
inconvienient for all.
Again, offtopic at the risk of incurring Jay's wrath - maybe we should have a
classiccmp-ot list for those of us that like to blether about the only
tangentially-related things we're interested in - the workshop manual for my
Citro?n CX has only got symbols for the various things like bolt torque, "do
this with this plug disconnected" etc. One must assume that in other
languages, the only section that's different is the one with the key to the
symbols. ISTR it uses commas rather than decimal points in numbers.
Gordon