Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The joy of VAX Date: 29 Sep 2024 07:56:55 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <5mqdnZuGq4lgwm_7nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <1r0e6u9.1tubjrt1kapeluN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <877cauvrnj.fsf@capuchin.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 0jCk2TvyYZcBHeeFH1KMLwiO5VykMieEegf4wQfhZAKrbp7bw3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Avv3nDB3/PI3WAhNu4rWzG15gYY= sha256:e9DE9tH9dVi8O9XyhM6zfUQ8mqjAhYhnaQBS+XqAlCg= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:58664 alt.folklore.computers:227203 On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 08:35:28 +0100, Robert Marshall wrote: >> I do have a vague memory the Vax C manual you mention was an orange >> one, and smaller than the rest, no idea if it is a correct memory. I >> can't even remember much of K&R now. >> >> > I can't remember any Vax manuals being grey just orange like on the rhs > of your picture. Did it depend on the date or the country they were > distributed from? In the UK, version 4 manuals were orange. Those for V5 were grey. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org