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From: dagg@lace.lbl.gov (Darren Griffiths)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VMS 5.0 announced.
Message-ID: <329@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 26 Jun 88 04:09:59 GMT
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In article <8806151221.AA16432@mitre-bedford.ARPA> mhg@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Mark H. Granoff) writes:
>>In the literature I received announcing VMS version 5.0 was a note
>> indicating that the VMS ( extended ) documentation set " is of some
>> considerable weight and size and will be delivered on a pallet " !
>
>I heard it has tripled in size and now sits 21 feet long if you stand
>each manual side by side.

We were told to expect 30 documents per set, and that's just the base 
documentation, it doesn't included layered products.  With all of the 
copies that LBL receives we were told to reserve 800 square feet in the 
receiving area.

  --darren
  dagg@lbl.gov


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Darren Griffiths                                          DAGG@LBL.GOV
Lawrence Berkeley Labs
Information and Computing Sciences Division