Re: 'Old fashioned' Tech Writers

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

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From: "T.W. Smith" <techwordsmith -at- gmail -dot- com>

> As for old-fashioned technical writing, from the post, it seems that
> this old-fashioned tech writing is really more about jumping through
> red tape and staving off lawsuits than it is about providing user
> assistance. No?



We write user docs for semiconductor IP (the circuit designs inside 
your CPU chip).  These products are as far from "physical" as you can
imagine (the customer doesn't even get a CD, we deliver them as tarball 
files to their FTP sites), and there are no "Cancel" buttons to worry about
documenting (the customers all do their work from the UNIX command 
prompt).  There's nothing "intuitive" about the innards of a chip.  Some 
of this "old fashioned tech writing" is just really, really "technical."

Gene Kim-Eng


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