RE: Active versus passive (WAS Displays versus Appears-Which One? )

Subject: RE: Active versus passive (WAS Displays versus Appears-Which One? )
From: "Le Vie, DonaldX S" <donaldx -dot- s -dot- le -dot- vie -at- intel -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:23:38 -0800

I've written and edited documents in a variety of industries, but none
provides as much a challenge as those drafted by microprocessor design
engineers.

I once came across a chip developer's manual chapter that began with "When
the programmer bursts across the partition..." What the SME really wanted to
say was "When programming memory bursts across register partitions..." My
editorial remark to the SME was "(sounds like a bloody mess...can you
reword?"). First, he didn't get the joke; second, he didn't have the first
clue on how to reword the passage.

Donn Le Vie

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