[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

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On 11/14/23 4:27 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> 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".


   Heh, heh ... I didn't let them "straighten out" anything
   for nearly 40 years. Found a floppy set of Windows For
   Workgroups the other day - KNEW I had those SOMEWHERE  :-)

   I'll have to see if I can install them on VirtualBox ...

   Found a photo of my office done over 20 years ago ...
   a lot of the same books still on the shelf.

   Got my MS Access 1.x manual, my Turbo Pascal v1 manual
   and IBM/MS Pascal manual. A 300 page VMS manual, a
   VIC-20 programming guide, several books on PICs back when
   the 16x series was top of the line. Lots of electronics
   books, some of which include vacuum tube diagrams that
   parallel the "newfangled" transistor circuits. Even
   have an IBM-PC Technical Reference Manual (with all those
   things "you don't need to know" ....

   In any case, I practice the "archeological" filing
   method ... older = deeper in the piles  :-)