Re: VAX Hardware Docs

On 11/8/06, Hugh Graham <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>

Thankyou so much miod and Hugh for your replies :-)

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_4029.html

says "VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures" is out of print.

Thankyou so much once again :-)

Kind regards

Siju