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From: mhg@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Mark H. Granoff)
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Subject: Re: VMS 5.0 announced. (And in my own defense)
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Date: 5 Jul 88 12:33:44 GMT
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>In article mhg@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Mark H. Granoff) writes:
>>...
>>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.

Oh, picky, picky...

>I also asked that far more important question: "what color are the binders?"
>...

Terribly important...

We received out 8 sets last week (on three palets).  The new binders
are in fact grey.  The only orange is on a little stripe on the
binder's outer insert.

We also noticed something else.  In the past, DEC *never* referred to
VMS as "VMS" but as "VAX/VMS," their reasoning being that VMS was not
VMS without a VAX.  In the V5.0 documentation set, however, VMS is 
called "VMS"...they have apparently dropped the "VAX/" from the name...
I guess they like to keep their customers on their toes...

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