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From: ted@cgl.ucsf.edu@blia.UUCP
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Subject: VMS 4.5
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Date: Wed, 17-Dec-86 13:16:42 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 17 13:16:42 1986
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We received VMS 4.5 from DEC a couple of weeks ago and are wondering if we
should install it or just sit on the tape until 4.6. I was told at the Fall
DECUS that 4.6 is also a maintenance release. This tells me that probably
either (a) most of the stuff in 4.5 is stuff they needed to get out quick
for new processors, etc; (b) there are problems in 4.5, not bad enough to
call it back, but bad enough to require a quick 4.6; or (c) both of the above.

Now, 4.4 is working fine for us (except for a couple of problems with new
features in the debugger) so my question to the net is: does anyone out there
really know what is fixed in 4.5 and what is newly busted in 4.5?

Please e-mail responses to me. I will summarize to the net. My uucp address
is ...!ucbvax!mtxinu!blia!ted (or mtxinu!blia!ted@Berkeley.EDU from arpanet).

Thanks in advance.

P.S. My system is a very plain 750, no CI and no DSA disks.