Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA!mhg From: mhg@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Mark H. Granoff) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: VMS 5.0 announced. (And in my own defense) Message-ID: <8807051233.AA22372@mitre-bedford.ARPA> Date: 5 Jul 88 12:33:44 GMT References: <1511@nrcvax.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 36 >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... +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mark H. Granoff Member of the Technical Staff | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | USMAIL: The MITRE Corporation | ARPAnet: mhg @ mitre-bedford.ARPA | | Burlington Rd. | UUCP : linus!mbunix!mhg | | M/S B015 |-----------------------------------| | Bedford, MA 01730 | A T & T: (617) 271 - 7506 | +--------------------------- Disclaimer -----------------------------+ | The views expressed herein are my own and do not necessarily | | reflect those of my employer. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+