[Info-vax] X86 first boot? - A Really Stupid Question

[Ben Lambert]

On Monday, 1 April 2019 17:00:24 UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman  wrote:
> On 2019-04-01 21:02:54 +0000, Ben Lambert said:
> 
> > On Monday, 1 April 2019 07:59:49 UTC-7, Stephen Hoffman  wrote:
> >> On 2019-03-31 23:58:44 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
> >> 
> >>> Is the Writing OpenVMS Alpha Device Drivers in C book still the  
> >>> starting point for Itanium ?
> >> 
> >> That's the "latest" edition.
> > 
> > Nope, there was a 2nd edition released in 1999, updated to support OpenVMS 7.3
> 
> That second edition* doesn't cover Itanium, nor will it cover x86-64.
> 
> Hardware coverage which was seemingly the core of Simon's question.
> 
> Same for the DCL book and various other increasingly-dated OpenVMS 
> tomes, though most of the other OpenVMS books are less 
> hardware-specific.
> 
> There's not much in the way of new OpenVMS documentation from HPE or 
> VSI or third-party writers and publishers.
> 
> While rebranding and other work and a conversion to docbook processes 
> was reportedly underway, VSI hasn't revealed a documentation strategy 
> or plans, and hasn't re-issued all that much.  They've been quite busy 
> elsewhere, after all.
> 
> And as has been discussed recently, classic printed books are going to 
> be very expensive for something akin to OpenVMS.  Or they'll be ebooks. 
>  Or both.
> 
> Been pondering what might happen with iBooks documents created for 
> OpenVMS materials, though that'd require readers to have a Mac or iOS 
> device to view the contents.  That might not be a popular prerequisite.
> 
> 
> *Ignoring the 1999 publication and the V7.3 2001-era release schedule 
> discussion.
> 
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Yes, sorry, the drawbacks of trying to reply/edit on a phone.  I was only correcting the three replies that said the 1996 version was the latest version, not the relevance of either to IA64.

Ben.