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From: jeh@crash.cts.com (Jamie Hanrahan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VMS 5.0 upgrade or new installation? (How different is V5?)
Summary: At the user level, not very
Message-ID: <3118@crash.cts.com>
Date: 15 Jun 88 00:37:28 GMT
References: <8856103652.20400289.DSTEVENS>
Reply-To: jeh@crash.CTS.COM (Jamie Hanrahan)
Organization: CMKRNL Press, San Diego, CA
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In article <8856103652.20400289.DSTEVENS> DSTEVENS@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU (David L. Stevens) writes:
>From what they said at DECUS-Cincinatti:
> ...
> Also based on what was said, it sounds like as dramatic a change in OS style
> as occured with VMS 4.0.  So be sure to read & reread the release notes to 
> find out just how big of a change it will be.

My experience:  at the DCL and application programmer level, V5 feels more 
like a point release of V4 than a major release.  Naturally things are different
"inside", so if you've got to maintain device drivers,user-written system
services, etc., you have to worry about the new synch. techniques and the
new organization of the executive.  At the system manager level, there are
some new bells and whistles (SYSMAN utility, license manager), but other
than that it's business as usual.  There is NOTHING like the vast change in
the system's external "look and feel" that happened with the V3 to V4 
transition.