[Info-vax] OT: Archive,org. See also: bitsavers.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-05-10, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Also available at the wayback machine and maybe of historical interest
> round here:
> Alpha Architecture Reference Manual (4th edn) and various other stuff.
> https://archive.org/details/dec-alpha_arch_ref
>

In case anyone is interested, the link to the collection is:

https://archive.org/details/dec-manuals

If something like the I&DS and Filesystem Internals books go out of
print, I wonder if someone will be allowed to scan them for archive.org ?

> This AARM is apparently OCR'd from commercial printed hardcopy rather
> than an electronic version from the original PS/PDF. Not sure it makes
> a huge difference in usefulness.
>
> The 4th edition was freely downloadable from digital.com,  which as per
> recent discussion, is apparently NOT archived at archive.org.
>

That may be because it was stored on a FTP server (IIRC) instead of a
web server. If you look at the gatekeeper home page from 1998:

http://web.archive.org/web/19980110193420/http://gatekeeper.dec.com/

will see access is not blocked, but you will also see the Access the
Archive via FTP link goes directly to the live FTP server instead of
a web.archive.org variant.

Also, if you try accessing the latest version of that page:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130527162910/http://gatekeeper.dec.com/

look at the difference between the FTP and HTTP links.

> And then there's bitsavers:
> https://archive.org/details/bitsavers
> which has a pile of 'interesting' stuff, including some DEC stuff which
> is mostly more relevant in alt.sys.pdp11 than it is here.
>

I've pulled _lots_ of stuff from Bitsavers over the years. Excellent
archive. :-)

Simon.

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