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From: jdh@bsu-cs.UUCP (John Hiday)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Tape management systems (was Re: BACKUP)
Message-ID: <2481@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 88 19:09:52 GMT
References: <880322070817.2d200fdd@LBL.Gov>
Reply-To: jdh@bsu-cs.UUCP (John Hiday)
Organization: Ball State University UCS, Muncie, IN
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In article <880322070817.2d200fdd@LBL.Gov> nagy%warner.hepnet@LBL.GOV (Frank J. Nagy, VAX Wizard & Guru) writes:
> [...]
>Finally, Digital has a new product in the works to manage tapes and disk
>(optical) disks.  This is rumored to be announcing within the next few
>months (I've heard everything from March to May/June; like other things
>it *probably* requires VMS V5.0 so might be waiting on that).  Contact
>your Digital Sales Rep for more information (probably on a non-disclosure
>basis).
>

There was a session on this at Fall DECUS.  The closest thing to a release
date I could get from anyone was "probably before Spring DECUS."  They
did say that it would run on V4.7, so there must be something else holding
it up.  Possibly the optical disk, since I think I remember them saying
that the two products would be announced together.

If there is sufficient interest I could post a summary of my notes from
that session.  It looks like a nice product, but then I have no experience
with the tape management systems available on other machines to compare it
to.

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