Sigh.
You'd think if they actually wanted to make the documentation
_usable_, they'd make it plain text. Apparently glitz wins out over
usability once again.
PDFs are _usable_ enough.
For you. Bully for you. (They're even usable _enough_ for me; as I
said later, the costs of using PDFs are costs I'm willing to invest for
a good chip. It's just there are other forms they could have provided
the information in which would be substantially less costly for me.)
Things change and progress. How would you include
drawings on ASCII?
Using ASCII ART?!?!
See my other message in this thread.
Wake up, 2008 is now!
Exactly the mindset that makes them use PDFs. They'd rather have
something that looks slick and glitzy and "2008" even at the price of
impairing usability (probably because "everybody" prefers PDFs, which
actually means that either they're living in a fantasy world or they
just don't care about the people who don't).
> Perhaps I should revisit them - do you happen to
have a pointer to
> the instruction set documentation handy? (I perhaps could find it,
> eventually, but the Web searches that appear to be everybody else's
> - and in particular companies' - idea of easy-to-find
Heloo-ooow? :oD
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Perhaps you don't believe me when
I say that digging stuff up on the Web is difficult and unpleasant for
me, perhaps because it isn't for you?
Thank you. That's what I was looking for.
I assume
they're more of those damned PDFs, meaning hours spent
extracting the information from them into a form that's actually
usable, but that's an overhead cost I'm willing to invest [...]
?!? I just
load it and read...What else is needed? :oO
Converting it into a usable form. This means me reading the printed
pages (or spending even longer reading it under even less pleasant
circumstances on-screen, which occasionally doesn't even work) and
generating, myself, some of the text files I wish they had provided in
the first place.
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