[Info-vax] MicroVAX/VMS newbie, couple of questions

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Rich Jordan wrote:
> On Sep 22, 4:40 pm, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>    An actual hardware inventory might be useful.  For example,
>> "a tape" is not very descriptive.  Disks(s)?  Ethernet?  ...?
>>
>>> [...] VMS 5.4 [...]
>>    Too old (1994?) to be good for much.  V5.5-2 is about as
>> far back as any sane person would wish to go.  Someone may be
>> willing and able to provide some newer VMS installation kit on
>> TK50 or TK70, or whatever "a tape" might be.
> 
> June 1990 is the date on the new features manual for VAX/VMS V5.4
> 
> I'm pretty sure the original version of the OSU DECthreads http server
> requires V5.5 at the absolute minimum due to the presence of
> DECthreads in that release.  So it really does sound like you'd be
> better served by a newer version.

That could turn out to be quite a project!  I'm inclined to suspect that
it might have to be done as multiple upgrades 5.4 to 5.5-2 to 6.0, 6.1, 
6.2, 7.0. . . .

It's usually far better to be running the current release or something 
reasonably close.  Old farts like me have forgotten V5.5-2 and the not 
so old farts never knew it in the first place.