[Info-vax] Should VSI create a modern day VMS applications book ?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 08/06/2018 09:05 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> In the distant past, DEC used to create application books which
> listed the various third party applications available for the
> DEC operating systems.
> 
> Is it worthwhile for VSI to create a modern day version of
> these books either as a PDF book or as an interactive website ?
> 
> If worthwhile, I don't see this as being a massive resource hog
> for VSI after the infrastructure is in place as they would mainly
> collect submissions filed by those same third party vendors.
> 

I doubt there would be enough pages to be worth printing.
Pretty sad to look at the old books (yes, I have them on
the bookshelf directly behind me) and see two volumes for
the PDP-11 in 1985, two volumes for the VAX in 1986 and
a few years later after the demise of the VAX the VMS
Source Book is one volume less than half the size of
one of the previous volumes.

bill