Vax 4000-60 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Nov 2000

From: Chuck McManis &lt;cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com&gt;

...
 Far be it from me to argue with a Digit :-), my 5.5-2
disk boots up as 

;)  I started at DEC when REX and MILLRAT were running V3.1 and
got the watch the progression of versions from there through V5.5-4.

...
 VAX/VMS and my 6.0 disk boots up as OPENVMS/VAX. The
5.x ConDist
documentation calls it VMS the savesets are VMSxxx and the 6.x ConDist 

The open was added around the time of the compaq merger.  the sales and
other external peripheria started using OpenVMS to counter the idea that
VMS was a sealed OS, anyone with internals training or a complete knew
that VMS was as open as could be had without giving the code away.
The idea had to be sold as really closed OSs were well known then
(early 90s) as IBM.

...
 calls it OpenVMS and the savesets are OVMSxxx. However,
I don't really know
...
 when DEC started pushing VMS as 'OpenVMS' in
relationship to what release
...
 was shipping. 

True, and 7.2 calls the various DEC$whatits still too.

...
 Frank confirms the 4.7. I'd like to find a 5.6 set
though, I looked through
...
 the SPD on the Compaq site and was trying to figure out
what it added
relative to 5.5-2. 

No idea.  I have 5.5-4 one one disk still.  The usual release rules were
Even numbers were feature adds 5.2, 5.4 and the odd ones were bug
fixes and small features.  By V4 though that was starting to get very
munged.

Allison