From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Newsgroups: fa.info-vax
Title: Cataloguing VAX software
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.420
Posted: Sat Dec 18 10:46:33 1982
Received: Sun Dec 19 07:19:55 1982

>From STEW@MIT-MC  Thu Dec 16 08:53:27 1982
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This is an EXCELLENT idea.  I volunteer to help create and maintain
such a list.  I do not, however, have a real home on the arpanet.
Perhaps several people could take charge of different categories
and someone could combine and provide a permanent home for the
results.

A good starting point, of course, would be the DECUS VAX SIG tapes.
There's a lot of obsoleted programs and other garbage there, but also
a lot of useful things.  Some possible categories were mentioned
by Willie Lim;  here are those and some others:

	Languages
	Editors
	Text processing
	Debugging tools
	File handling
	Communications (networking, mail systems, etc)
	Hardware support
	Graphics
	Games (?)
	Applications
		VLSI
		AI
		Chemistry
		Math
		.....

Anyone think of any other categories?

Stew