From: MERC::"uunet!WKUVX1.BITNET!MacroMan" 15-DEC-1992 20:44:35.10 To: jeh@cmkrnl.com, CC: Subj: Re: Alpha VMS listings (was VMS Version 5.5 Listing Kit is shipping) In article <1992Dec14.223849.965@cmkrnl.com> you write: # #In article <9204210609.AA29028@relay2.UU.NET>, # "(Jon Pinkley, Westinghouse (216)486-8300 x1335)" writes: #> QB-001AB-E8 VMS LISTING CD KIT & LICENSE #> VMS Listings Kit on Compact Disc (one VMS version) #> #> QB-001AB-Q8 VMS LISTING SERVICE - CDROM #> VMS Listing Kit on Compact Disc Service (updates) # #Did anyone get the numbers for the VMS-Alpha AXP listings kit? Brian Breton #announced its availability at the DECUS Symposium last week, but I missed that #session. # #The VMS AXP listing kit is orderable and shipping *now* -- two copies of it #were on hand at the Symposium. # #Digital's effort to make this kit available so early in the VMS AXP product #cycle, along with other, related efforts (the internals "update express" #manuals, the internals manual itself, the new VMScluster internals manual #(preliminary edition was available at the DECUS store; final edition is due out #in Spring), the "file system internals" manual by Kirby McCoy, etc., etc.), is #just plain wonderful. Just you TRY to get source listings or internals #documentation out of Sun, or HP, or IBM, or Microsoft, or.... # #> If you are serious about VMS internals, the listings kit is #> indispensible. See your Sales rep for prices. (No, I don't work #> for DEC) # #Yep. And the AXP listings will be invaluable for anyone who is porting code, #especially privileged code, to Alpha. At $2200, who in their right mind would #pass it up??? # The order numbers for the OpenVMS AXP v1.0 Source listings are QB-MT1AB-E8 OpenVMS AXP BAS SRC LST & CD QT-MT1AB-Q8 OpenVMS AXP BAS Src Upd CDROM I can personnally say they made our port to the Alpha *MUCH* easier that it would have been (esp. since the 1st ed of Ruth's VMS for Alpha Platforms Internals and Data Structures didn't have the chapter on memory management.) -- Patrick L. Mahan --- TGV Window Washer ------------------------------- Mahan@TGV.COM --------- Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered - Lazarus Long a capital crime. For a first offense, that is From the Notebooks of Lazarus Long