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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.rsts
Subject: Re: RSTS Discontinued?
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.162743.1559@spcvxb.spc.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 91 16:27:43 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.154350.1523@spcvxb.spc.edu> <5420@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
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In article <5420@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, stevedc@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Stephen Carter) writes:
> MDDS is Media and Distribution.  This is Software Dispatch and new
> versions.  SInce I can't recall the last time I saw a SD, and we have NO
> intention of going to V10, why pay the approx 1000 UK pounds for this!

  I've heard of similar problems with the UK Software Dispatch. It seems
like DEC UK figures that customers will call DECTEL for support when they
have a problem, forgetting that customers would rather have the Dispatch
so they can apply the patches _before_ they have a problem.

  Here in the US, the Dispatch comes out monthly and has had V9.7 patches
in it about 50% of the time (this is since V10 has been released).

  Just out of curiosity, why are you not going to V10?

	Terry Kennedy		Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.bitnet	St. Peter's College, US
	terry@spcvxa.spc.edu	(201) 915-9381