[Info-vax] VMS 5.0

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:31:35 -0600, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article <1n83p8-uq9.ln1 at news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture
> <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>> 
>> Yes, but it never took me anywhere near nine hours.
>> 
>> 
>    Me neither, but I did watch a VMS update on 9-track run back and
>    forth many times, and recover via BACKUP redundancy, when we had a
>    dirty head on a drive.

I recall upgrading an 11/750 at a customer site; it might have been 2 
upgrades (e.g. 3.0 to 3.1 then to 3.2), but I arrived at 9:00 and it was 
still churning when we went for lunch.  It wasn't so much the tape speed 
as the number of images that were PATCHed, all logged to the hardcopy 
console.

P.S. This was at the Sorbonne, and lunch in the student canteen was a 
real treat.

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Paul Sture

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