On Jul 15, 2016, at 11:47 AM, Liam Proven <lproven
at gmail.com> wrote:
On 14 July 2016 at 22:43, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
As for VMS HELP, I don't think the tool is
all that much better; what
is _much_ better is the documentation it contains. DEC documentation
of the VMS era was _awesome_. Even today I rarely see it equaled,
never mind bettered, in many ways.
HELP WOMBAT
Not to mention "HELP ADVANCED WOMBAT".
Actually, if you want to see really good online help -- vastly better even than that of
VMS -- take a look at PLATO. To become a PLATO programmer, all you'd need was for the
admin to hand you your login credentials along with "sit down at a terminal and
follow instructions". A logged out terminal would display "Press NEXT to
begin" -- you'd do that and literally everything from that point on would be
described by on-line help of one kind or another.
paul