[Info-vax] VMS porting/rewrite, was: Re: [OT] Wirth style languages, was: Re: Obscure Ada compiler vendors?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-04-10, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> In article <kk456v$m4v$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>
>>The only thing I've ever seen a ACP used for on VMS is for tape drives
>>and I've never even come across any public documentation which would
>>allow me to write one of those.
>
> Lee Leahy and Jamie Hanrahan wrote a book titled "Advanced Device Driver
> Techniques."  Yes, it had to be purchased, so I suppose that makes it non-
> public documentation.
>

Purchased documentation from a bookshop is still public documentation in
my eyes. I still have a copy of the Alpha Device Drivers in C book in my
library at home (which I purchased in a mainstream York/Leeds bookshop
about a decade ago, IIRC).

It becomes non-public when you start having to sign, for example, a NDA.

The book you mentioned is still been sold on Amazon UK, but for stupid
money. If it were close to the price of a mainstream paperback computer
book, I probably would have picked it up in the past, but I also probably
would not have (for home use anyway) at it's current price of 75 UKP.

The Amazon.com offers (with international shipping as a option) are not
any better, either, BTW.

> Shouldn't that be "an ACP" or is that "an banana?" :D
>

You live in New Jersey and you comment on _my_ language ? :-) :-)

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