Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!pasteur!helios.ee.lbl.gov!lace.lbl.gov!dagg 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 References: <8806142037.AA26740@mitre-bedford.ARPA> <8806151221.AA16432@mitre-bedford.ARPA> Sender: usenet@helios.ee.lbl.gov Reply-To: dagg@lbl.gov (Darren Griffiths) Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley Lines: 21 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Darren Griffiths DAGG@LBL.GOV Lawrence Berkeley Labs Information and Computing Sciences Division