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From: kvc@nrcvax.UUCP (Kevin Carosso)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VMS 5.0 announced.
Message-ID: <1511@nrcvax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 88 18:23:17 GMT
References: <8806142037.AA26740@mitre-bedford.ARPA> <8806151221.AA16432@mitre-bedford.ARPA>
Reply-To: kvc@minnie.UUCP (Kevin Carosso)
Organization: Network Research Corp.  Oxnard, CA
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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.

At DECUS I asked one of the DEC Documentation folks about the V5 doc set.
She says it is about 1.5 - 2 linear feet longer than the V4.7 complete doc set.
Larger, but certainly not "tripled" in size.

I also asked that far more important question: "what color are the binders?"
I said we were all very disappointed when they didn't change binder colors
from V3 to V4 and I hoped they had addressed this problem.  She says they
have indeed.  Some people complained about not being able to easily go
for a V4 binder when you had both V3 and V4 on your shelves.  New color
is supposed to be sort of a grey (she pointed to a couch in the DECUS
exhibit hall) with orange trim.