Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!YALE.ARPA!LEICHTER-JERRY From: LEICHTER-JERRY@YALE.ARPA Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: Re: ?? on VMS releases for uVAX-II Message-ID: <8701231542.AA11342@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 23-Jan-87 10:43:04 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8701231542.AA11342 Posted: Fri Jan 23 10:43:04 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Jan-87 00:15:09 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 40 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa I have a few questions about VMS releases for the MicroVaxen. My sales- man's answer to these questions was no answer at all. (He could not/did not want to find out) 1) I have been told (by the DEC distributor that sold us the system) that 4.5 for the MicroVAX is somewhere in the software production pipe. Is this true? If so, when can I expect it? MicroVMS V4.5 shipped sometime in late November/early December. A quick look at some system files reveals that I installed it on my VS II on December 19th. As I recall, it arrived here about a week earlier. (Note: This was a TK50 distribution. It's possible, if unlikely, that other distributions were delayed.) 2) The same source indicates that 4.5 for the MicroVAX is the (long) rumored VMS that is not different from the big system VMS. (IE the end of the two (subtlely/annoyingly) different VMSen.) Is this true? No. I thought that 4.5 was for the new CPU's and primarily for Low End Clusters. I had understood that the death of MicroVMS would occur at 4.6 at the earliest. 4.5 has a lot of patches and bug fixes, but almost no user-visible changes. 3) When (if) DEC decides that us MicroVAX folks get upgraded to real VMS, are they also going to upgrade us to a real manual set? I have no idea. However, if you compare the price of just the full VMS doc set to the price of a MicroVMS license, I think you'd have to consider that unlikely. Besides, various government safety regulations forbid shipping a commercial system with less total volume or weight than its documentation. :-) -- Jerry -------