Re: VMs: It's Origin and Purpose

["Robert Antony Hicks" <rob_hicks_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The VMS surely cannot be anything as mundane as a prop, simply because of 
the vast amount of time it would have taken to produce.  As a rough estimate 
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200 pages, each page requiring an illustration (1 hour per illustration) and 
'structured' text (1 hour) = 400 man hours, or about 2 weeks of non-stop 
work.  That's a very conservative estimate, too.  Two people (Hands 1 and 2) 
would still need over a week of non-stop endeavour.  If three people worked 
8 hour shifts in rotation (1 doing the illustrations, 2 doing the text), we 
still require about a week.

It just wouldn't make any sense to write the thing unless it meant 
something.
Rob








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