[TUHS] Re: Anyone have Plexus docs/software squirreled away?

[Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>]

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At one point, a google search could find most of the VMS source, at least
through VMS 5 or maybe 6. I didn't download it at the time and haven't
searched since... Given the ubiquity of vms on microfiche I wasn't
surprised at the time. A quick search today, though, comes up dry.

Warner

On Wed, Jun 19, 2024, 5:21 PM Peter Yardley <peter.martin.yardley@gmail.com>
wrote:

> We had VMS source on microfiche as part of he support contract. If you
> payed more you could have got it as machine readable.
>
> > On 20 Jun 2024, at 8:58 AM, Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 6:46 AM Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> wrote:
> > On 6/19/24 3:25 PM, Kevin Bowling wrote:
> >
> > > Seems like yet another mediocre UNIX port at first, but then they
> happen to find the system schematic netlists and PAL equations in addition
> > > to partial source code on the hard disk.  If those are published that
> will make a quite wholesome thing to study.
> >
> > I tried to stress on their discord that finding things like that 40
> years out is a very unusual occurence.
> > I've spent decades digging through people's garages trying to find stuff
> like that for bitsavers.
> >
> > I’m weak in my DEC history and collection but I’ve heard some in person
> stories that VMS source was not impossible to find on microfiche at certain
> institutions.  They might have had at least board level schematics too.
> That situation would be roughly equivalent to IBM mainframes through the
> 1980s but you’d still be missing a lot of microcode and logic equations to
> zoom in at any level for these two examples.
> >
> > Are you aware of anything else where the whole kit and caboodle is
> available?  Particularly keen on microcode and logic equations since that
> stuff is indeed hard to come by.
>
> Peter Yardley
> peter.martin.yardley@gmail.com
>
>

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