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From: pag@hao.UUCP (Peter Gross)
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Subject: Re: VAX clustering and U{n,ltr}ix
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 01:36:34 EST
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> > It [...] appears DEC no longer sells the documentation necessary for
> > writing drivers for these things [CI/SC008/HSC50].
> 
> If this is true (the "appears" alleviates the scare somewhat), then I
> think DEC is making a Big Mistake.  I like DEC equipment partly because
> I have these little manuals I can flip through.  It's hard to have too
> much documentation [though VMS perhaps succeeds here :-)].  The best
> argument I can give for my opinion is "if we don't know enough about it,
> we aren't going to buy it".
> 
> Are you listening, DEC?

Another "unavailable" manual is the UDA50 Programmer's Kit -- makes it
impossible to interpret the MSCP packet dumps that the 4.2 UDA driver
is fond of spitting out on the console.  Our field service rep has agreed
to accidently leave one at our site.
-- 
--peter gross
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