16 May
2021
16 May
'21
1 p.m.
Does anyone know if a 5.5-2 era CONOLD is available? These that have just been made
available are beyond awesome, as I gave my paper set of 5.x doc?s to Paul Allen?s computer
museum, only keeping the basic 6 paperbacks, since I have a complete 6.x set, and the base
7.2 set
I?m going to see about putting them on PDXVAX (which is on HECnet), and making them
available for viewing with VTBOOK. I need to hunt up copies of that and a couple other
things. I should have them in my archives.
I want to say that there is a WASD package that will handle bookreader format doc?s.
Zane
On May 16, 2021, at 11:46 AM, Antonio Carlini via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 16/05/2021 13:51, Malte Dehling wrote:
I have now generated a contents listing for the
CONOLD CDs:
https://archive.org/details/vms-conold-1989-03
https://archive.org/details/vms-conold-1989-07
That looks interesting: the fundamental VMS documentation is there, but very
little of the layered product info is present.
The MAR-1989 CONOLD has FORTRAN and DBMS and the JUL-1989 CONOLD has C, FORTRAN, PASCAL,
GKS, DBMS, VDE and DECforms.
So I would speculate that these would be amongst the earliest CONOLD distributions. I
read elsewhere (comp.os.vms) that the first CONDIST
went out in the VMS V5.0 timeframe and the 1989-05 CONDIST contains both VMS V5.0 and
V5.1. VMS V5.0 was announced
in APR-1998 (https://eisner.decus.org/anon/htnotes/note?f1=INDUSTRY_NEWS&f2=64.0)4.0), so
it is possible that some earlier CONDIST
may yet appear.
I've put the CD_CONTENTS.DAT that I have up on github:
https://github.com/AntonioCarlini/dec-cdrom-distros. (I just realised that I've
mis-named the 1989-05 release as 1989-03 ... I'll fix that rsn).
I guess that I should do something similar for the CONOLD CDROMs. Did you find DECW$SHELF
to be enough to build up an accurate list of contents?
Antonio
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