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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 7/9/2011 8:01 PM, John Smith (not the one @ HP) wrote:
> "Johnny Billquist"<bqt at softjar.se>  wrote in message
> news:iv5c46$e14$2 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE...
>> On 2011-07-07 06.16, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>>> Johnny Billquist<bqt at softjar.se>   wrote:
>>>
>>> (snip)
>>>
>>>> Yes. You need to read a newer version of the VARM. :-)
>>>> Check
>>>> http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/vax/archSpec/EL-00032-00-decStd32_Jan90.pdf,
>>>> which is dated January 1990.
>>>
>>> Is that one a book?   I have one that is an actual hardbound book.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> But the version in the link supersedes that version.
>
>
> 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.
>
> I still have a bunch of other Handbooks kicking around.
>
>

If you copy and republish the Alpha Architecture Handbook you should be 
prepared to spend a few months or years defending a lawsuit for 
violation of HP's Copyright!

If you request permission to re-publish some or all of the Handbook, 
there's a good possibility that permission would be granted.  It's not 
as if you would be depriving Compaq of any huge revenue stream!

OTOH, there's a good chance that you would lose your shirt! the "Alpha 
Architecture Handbook" was never, and never will be a "best seller"!