Re: 100? Why not a thousand flowers? Message #33 Posted by Peter Murphy (Livermore) on 3 Oct 2011, 11:46 a.m., in response to message #1 by Walter B
The HP 48G/GX had its User's Guide (which underwent at least eight editions) and its Advanced User's Reference Manual (three). They're exactly what one would call the FM: read it and you'll find everything, or nearly so.
HP left it at that.
Then others wrote books on using the 48G/GX. Grapevine Publications put out four books and a Pocket Guide, and Thomas Adams wrote or cowrote two more. Some books, written for the 48S/SX, are pertinent to the 48G/GX as well. There may be others of which I am not aware. They all have their place alongside the FM.
I would think that 100! pages by a principal in the 34S project would qualify, after minor fixes, as the FM. Rather than setting up a wiki within which to make the FM satisfy everyone -- an impossible project -- might it not be better for anyone with a Grapevine-like idea just to do it?
By all means read and proofread the FM, and suggest fixes to the author. Then let the FM be, and let a thousand flowers bloom.
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