My dad bought MS-DOS 5.0 for our 8088-based system at one point. We ended up not using it until we got a hard drive (all of 40M <g>), but the manual was ~8" wide, 9" tall, and close to an inch thick. It was not only an "Introduction to DOS"-type manual, it was a *COMPLETE* paper reference to all of the programs MS-DOS 5.0 included.
Somewhere we've got the manufacturer's manual for that system for MS-DOS 2.0 (IIRC, may be 3.0), still shrink-wrapped. ~4"x6", ~2.5" thick, and looseleaf.
In comparison, the next computer my parents bought (486/DX33) came with a ~40 page 4x6" "manual" for DOS 6.0, and a similar "manual" for Windows 3.1. They're both OK, in that they have some of the most basic information required to use DOS and Windows... but they are by no means a complete reference.
I don't recall what I got with "my first PC", but it was a system only slightly newer than "the very first release of Win95".
I think I have motherboard manuals thicker than what come with that machine, though. |
