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

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On Wednesday, June 19th, 2024 at 7:48 PM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jun 19, 2024, 8:31 PM Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 at 20:20, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
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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.
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> > Someone uploaded what looks to be a full set of VMS V4.0 microfiche to archive.org, but they did it in such a way that it is hundreds of separate documents instead of one cohesive collection. I guess it's in keeping with the "here it is, but not in a particularly easy to use format" idea of the microfiche distribution...
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> Pictures of printouts of listing of compiler output with various source directives that control the ouput. It's hard to beat retyping by hand for recovering the original source....
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> And these are what i found... and was part of an effort to recover the original sources.... can't recall what hapoened to that...
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> Warner
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> > I'm not a VMS person but I do look through a lot of DEC archives in more and less above-board places and I've only ever seen VMS source up to V4.0.
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> > -Henry

It's a shame, a VMS source microfiche set popped up on eBay some time in the past year, I can't recall why I didn't hop on it.  I do keep an eye out though.  If I ever find another I may be fiching around for some help :)

- Matt G.