[Info-vax] VMS83A_UPDATE V11

[Tim E. Sneddon]

IanMiller wrote:
> On Dec 10, 3:10 pm, "Tim E. Sneddon" <tim.sned... at bigpond.com> wrote:
>> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> In article <4b21116... at news.langstoeger.at>,
>>>    pe... at langstoeger.at (Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER) writes:
>>>>                                                                  PTHREAD
>>>>      kit expects that the system be rebooted after installing SYS kit.
>>> I thought installation reboots one of those Windows things people
>>> here are always complaining about?  I thought VMS ran for years
>>> without reboots?  :-)  Yet another myth dies.  
>> How about the climbing number of patches?  I count approximately 90
>> on my V8.2 Alpha system.  Another myth gone too?
>>
>> Tim.
> 
> 
> 90 patches in 4.5 years

That is 1.6 patches per month.  What's the excuse for 8.3-1H1?  I'm
not up to date, yet have 69 patches installed.  That was since
Nov 2007.  So, that's 2 years and 2.9 patches per month.  The myth
constantly propagated round these 'ere parts was that Microsoft
was the "patch-a-month-club".  Which may be true, but the implication
was that VMS was somehow better in that respect and it would appear
that it just doesn't seem to be so.  At least, not from my point of
view.

Tim.