[Info-vax] Updated VMS Roadmap

[Marc Van Dyck]

on 7/01/2010, Guy Peleg supposed :
> On Jan 7, 6:33 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> IanMiller wrote:
>>> Note Previous vms release was V8.3-1H1 in Nov 2007
>> 
>> But that was just to add support for some new IA64 boxes (blades as I
>> recall). It didn't add new functionality to VMS per say and didn't
>> affect Alpha VMS.
>
> 8.3-1H1 contains many performance related changes and should be used
> by
> anyone using Itanium. There are also few new features hidden in the
> release
>
> Guy Peleg
> Maklee Engineering
> www.maklee.com
>
>
>> 
>> And that will be the same for 8.4HW which will be 8.4 with support for
>> new hardware.

Is the migration from 8.3 to 8.3-1H1 a straightforward one, or should
everything be re-tested again ? Can I consider migrating from 8.3
to 8.3-1H1 like if I was just applying a set of patches ?

-- 
Marc Van Dyck