[Info-vax] VMS83A_UPDATE V11

[John Santos]

In article <4B21294E.6010106 at bigpond.com>, tim.sneddon at bigpond.com 
says...> 
> 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.

Microsoft patch a month?  LOL.  Try 20/month or so.


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John Santos
Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc.