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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: VMS Pascal article
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 18:24:46 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-01-08, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
> There were at least:
> * VMS VAX 4.4
> * VMS VAX 5.2
> * VMS Alpha 1.5
>
> Not sure if there were for earlier VMS versions.
>
> No:
> * VMS Alpha 7.x (64 bit !)

There was a memory or process supplement book published IIRC however.

> * VMS Itanium
>
> Question for Camiel: will you be writing the one for VMS x86-64 9.2?
>

He and other VSI employees had previously said no to a full book but the
posting from Rob in this thread about a selective release of changes is
welcome news.

A couple of more realistic freely available drivers (instead of just
LRDRIVER) would also be welcome by anyone still writing VMS device drivers.

Simon.

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