Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!hplabs!hao!pag From: pag@hao.UUCP (Peter Gross) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: VAX clustering and U{n,ltr}ix Message-ID: <1388@hao.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 01:36:34 EST Article-I.D.: hao.1388 Posted: Thu Mar 7 01:36:34 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 11:26:02 EST References: <1134@godot.UUCP> <3773@umcp-cs.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 21 > > 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 UUCP: {hplabs,seismo}!hao!pag CSNET: pag@ncar.csnet ARPA: pag%ncar@csnet-relay.arpa