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

[Kari Uusimäki]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 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.

Should be enough with three steps 5.4 -> 5.5-2 -> 6.1 -> 7.3
That's some project anyway.