[Info-vax] installing AACRT on VMS 5.5-2

[Hans Bachner]

SMS <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dennis Grevenstein wrote:
>> [...] So far, I had always installed UCX 4.0 first, [...]
> 
>    Hmmm.  My copy of the "Digital TCP/IP Services for
> OpenVMS V4.0" SPD (46.46.02, "April 1995") says:
> 
> [...]
>  SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
> 
>  To qualify for a software support contract, Digital TCP/IP Services
>  for OpenVMS V4.0 requires the OpenVMS Operating System, Version 6.0
>  or later.
> [...]
> 
>    I wouldn't bet much on its behavior on VMS V5.x.
> It's easy to believe that it would drag in some newer
> C RTL (or an expectation of one).

Both Steven end Dennis are right :-)

When UCX V4.0 was released, it required OpenVMS V6 or later.

In 1998 when all the Layered Products were checked for Y2K readiness (and 
in some cases modified to properly work after 1/1/2000) Compaq found that 
it was easier to qualify UCX V4.0 on OpenVMS 5.5-2 than checking/fixing 
UCX V3.3. Since that time UCX V4.0 (with some ECO, I don't remember which 
one) was supported on OpenVMS V5.5-2.

Hans.