[Info-vax] to upgrade or not to upgrade

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2011-05-19 20:34:
> For various reasons, my planned upgrade from 7.3-2 to 8.3 was delayed.
> Soon, I will have time for it, but am wondering if it is worth the
> trouble.  My current patches seem OK, and I have all the patches which
> were available up until the lockdown, both for 7.3-2 and 8.3.  Now with
> no hobbyist patch access and, as far as I can tell, none on the horizon,
> what do folks here recommend?  My choices are 7.3-2 or 8.3, at the patch
> level available last October.  AFAIK there are no serious problems with
> my current patch level.  What about 7.3-2 or 8.3 as of last October?
>
> It might be the last hobbyist upgrade.  :-(
>
> I've still had no luck in organising some sort of hobbyist patch access,
> neither for free nor for a (reasonable) fee.  If anyone has any
> suggestions, feel free to contact me via email.
>

If you don't have specific reasons to run some old version, I'd
strongly advice to run 8.3. There are a lot of reasons. A lot us
"user" level aditions to DCL, well, a lot of things generaly.