[HN Gopher] Windows 3.x VDDVGA
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       Windows 3.x VDDVGA
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 102 points
       Date   : 2023-01-23 14:17 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.os2museum.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.os2museum.com)
        
       | aidenn0 wrote:
       | > it omits certain things while documenting other things that
       | appear to be fictional
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       | This describes nearly all engineering documentation I've seen. In
       | many cases hobbyists having reverse-engineered how something
       | works are better off than if they had been given the official
       | documentation.
        
         | mysterydip wrote:
         | I assume this happens when something is designed to do a thing,
         | documentation is written, then the design is updated or bugs
         | fixed or flow changed to handle a situation, and documentation
         | never gets redone to match.
        
           | chungy wrote:
           | I can imagine it being intentional too: You can tell whether
           | the documentation was illegally used to create a competitor.
        
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