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From: Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx>
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Subject: Re: The joy of VAX
Date: 29 Sep 2024 07:56:55 GMT
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On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 08:35:28 +0100, Robert Marshall wrote:

>> I do have a vague memory the Vax C manual you mention was an orange
>> one, and smaller than the rest, no idea if it is a correct memory. I
>> can't even remember much of K&R now.
>>
>>
> I can't remember any Vax manuals being grey just orange like on the rhs
> of your picture. Did it depend on the date or the country they were
> distributed from?

In the UK, version 4 manuals were orange. Those for V5 were grey.

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