[Simh] [OT] What's the difference between the 1990 Brunner VAX Architecture book and the Leonard from 1987?

[Paul Koning]

> On Jan 28, 2016, at 1:05 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 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.

Ah.  Ok.  I looked at the four documents at Bitsavers and found one with Brunner's name on it, namely a copy of DEC Std 032.

	paul