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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 08/07/2018 02:38 PM, Chris wrote:
> On 08/07/18 13:03, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>
> 
> Would be interesting to get all those scanned to pdf, if not
> already done so...
> 
> Chris


Nice thought, but Volume 1 of the PDP-11 set alone  is
937 pages.

And, you would have to destroy the book in order to scan
them unless you wanted to stand at the scanner and do them
one page at a time.  And then, forcing the binding, you
would probably destroy them anyway.

bill