[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Charlie Gibbs]

On 2023-11-13, TimS <tim at streater.me.uk> wrote:

> On 13 Nov 2023 at 17:44:15 GMT, "Pancho" <Pancho.Jones at proton.me> wrote:
>
>> Looking back on it now. I think the strangest thing about VMS was the
>> Manual Set.
>
> Chap I shared an office with at SLAC back in the 80s was one of these
> hoarders. We not only had the current set of VMS doc in the office, but the
> complete previous set too, while he had the set before that in his garage at
> home.

The one time I would hang on to old versions of manuals was when the
vendor decided there were things you no longer needed to know (e.g.
low-level I/O access), and deleted them from the new version.

> He was the sort of chap who, if you asked him for the 3-page doc that you'd
> loaned him a month previously, could unerringly poke into the 3-foot high pile
> (er, one of the piles, sorry), on his desk and pull it out straight away, with
> zero search time. This made complaining about the paper piles futile. "Works
> for me!"

I do this frighteningly often.  Of course, the whole thing falls apart when
someone helpfully decides to "straighten things out".

    I don't believe it!
    There she goes again!
    She's tidied up and I can't find anything!
      -- Thomas Dolby: She Blinded Me with Science

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