[Info-vax] Part number encoding

[H Vlems]

On Dec 25, 11:03 am, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
> H Vlems schrieb:
>
> > I'm guessing here but may be if the first two characters are digits
> > the product code refers to hardware, otherwise it's either software of
> > documentation.
> > The last two characters are either a patch level or a (hardware)
> > variant of the product. Software was issued on various media, called H-
> > kits.
> > The reason was that all media kits had product codes that ended in -
> > Hn.  When n was 9 you got 9 track PE magtape.
> > Hans
>
> Sure?
> All CDs I know of start with "AG" and end with "BE", "RE", "XE" or "BS",
> be it for VMS, DUNIX or Ultrix.

Of course I'm not sure. The term H-kit was invented well before a cd
was even thought of!
And by the time they were, it was to distribute music.....