You'll get better answers if you're more explicit with your references. Paul took at guess at what you meant. I'm going to make a different guess.
I'm guessing that the two books are: - "Leonard book" - VAX Architecture Manual, first edition, edited by Timothy Leonard and published by Digital Press in 1987 - "Brunner book" - VAX Architecture Manual, second edition, edited by Richard Brunner & Dileep Bhandarkar and published by Digital Press in 1990 The 1994 Digital Press catalog <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/util/html/cltl/dp_catalog.html#Brunner> says the second edition "includes important new material covering the VAX shared-memory model and new vector processing extensions." It presumably also includes a variety of other revisions and corrections. The book was written for public consumption, based on, but different from, DEC Std 032. Tom On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 5:28 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Since there are some ex-DEC people here and many people knowledgeable in > VAX can anybody tell me the [major] differences between these books if any? > The Brunner book is very expensive, the 1987 copy is very affordable. What > do I miss out on by buying the one by Timothy Leonard from 1987? > > I realize the scans are up on bitsavers but I usually find real books > easier to deal with. > > Thanks. > > -- > Please do not copy me on mailing list replies. I read the mailing list. > RSA 4096 fingerprint 7940 3F02 16D3 AFEE F2F8 ACAA 557C 4B36 98E4 4D49 > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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