[Info-vax] OpenVMS I64 V8.1 "Evaluation Release"?

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Nomen Nescio <nobody at dizum.com> wrote:

(snip)
> IBM is real proprietary about all the mainframe stuff. Most of us who
> learned it were around when they were a little more helpful but it still
> took a lot of digging. Most of the physical specifications and details are
> only known to companies like Fujitsu when they spend millions of dollars
> sawing open IBM boxes so they can rip them off. The Japanese guys probably
> know more about what IBM is doing than any of us.

It used to be that some of the more general details would leak out,
for example in the Systems Journal or Research and Development Journal.

It used to be that the PDFs were available free, but not any more.

Some might also be in patents that could be looked up.

-- glen