11 Mar
2016
11 Mar
'16
1:03 p.m.
On 3/9/2016 3:44 PM, devin davison wrote:
I do not know much at all about what it would take to
compile this into a
working system. My first step is going to be to get over to the library and
get everything into a digital format. Ill be putting everything i scan up
online.
If by "working system" you mean a fully functional (Open)VMS, then you
won't. The source code listings on fiche (or CD/DVD) contain the compiler listings for
many parts of Open)VMS, but not all. They also don't have the utilities needed in the
highly complex toolchain that is used to create a working (Open)VMS system. They were
meant for those who do device driver and internal support to be able to find areas in the
code to debug. They were not meant to be able to build a working system. If you want to
know how a certain system service works or device driver or utility, they are great.
Thank you in advance for putting it online (although it's possible HP might have
something to say about it, but given the version, hopefully not).
If there is a copy of the source on CD that someone
can spare that would be
great, I was unaware any newer versions of the source code were distributed
on newer formats such as CD.
As others have said, (although I think it was V6.0 that started CD, but I could be quite
wrong) the current format for source listings is CD (DVD for the 8.x IA64). I have
several from my stint at HP (as an Oracle DBA contractor, unfortunately not in OpenVMS
support but you'd be surprised at how cheap you can buy things as an employee.)
--Devin
John H. Reinhardt