From:	MERC::"uunet!WKUVX1.BITNET!MacroMan" 15-DEC-1992 20:44:35.10
To:	jeh@cmkrnl.com, <TGV.COM!macro32%wkuvx1.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
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

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