[Info-vax] In memoriam: 10 years since Alpha's passing away.

[John Wallace]

On Jul 10, 1:01 am, "John Smith \(not the one @ HP\)"
<a... at nonymous.com> wrote:
> "Johnny Billquist" <b... at softjar.se> wrote in message
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> news:iv5c46$e14$2 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE...
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> > On 2011-07-07 06.16, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> >> Johnny Billquist<b... at softjar.se>  wrote:
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> >> (snip)
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> >>> Yes. You need to read a newer version of the VARM. :-)
> >>> Check
> >>>http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/vax/archSpec/EL-00032-00-d...,
> >>> which is dated January 1990.
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> >> Is that one a book?   I have one that is an actual hardbound book.
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> > It's a PDF. What more can I say?
> > I don't know how it looked in printed form. Yes, I have the older VARM in
> > hardcopy as well.
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> > But the version in the link supersedes that version.
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> I have 3 book copies of  the Alpha Architecture Handbook, EC-H1689-10  Rel#
> 4/92
> I'd be willing to tear one apart and scan it if there was enough intereest.
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> I still have a bunch of other Handbooks kicking around.

Alpha Architecture Handbook, Version 4, EK-QD2KC-TE (date unknown),
still downloadable for free and without a signed in blood contract at

http://www.compaq.com/cpq-alphaserver/technology/literature/alphaahb.pdf

Have a look and see if it's sufficiently different to make tearing and
scanning (and OCRing and proofreading?) worthwhile?