Re: VAX Hardware Docs

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 05:53:22PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> >I would like to know if there are books available for VAX architecture
> >like the Peter Norton's book.
> 
> The VAX ``bible'' is the ``VAX Architecture Reference Manual''
> (Richard A. Brunner, Digital Press, ISBN 1-55558-057-2), which extensively
> documents the processor. Unfortunately these books are quite difficult to
> come by those days, and there is no online version of it I am aware of.

And for clues on how to build an OS around the above, "VAX/VMS
Internals and Data Structures" is interesting to read, though the
exercise may be akin to learning Martian on a lark.

/Hugh