[Info-vax] Changed Boot behavior on XP1000 since 2013

[BillPedersen]

On Saturday, January 19, 2013 12:13:16 AM UTC-5, David Froble wrote:
> BillPedersen wrote:
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> > On Friday, January 18, 2013 3:19:31 PM UTC-5, Steven Schweda wrote:
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> >> On Jan 18, 11:38 am, Ian Miller <g... at uk2.net> wrote:
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> >>> What patches do you have installed?
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> >>    Patches?  Patches?  I can't get any stinking patches!
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> >> (For VMS Alpha V8.3.  And precious few for V8.4)  Can I?
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> >>    Which patch fixed the problem?
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> > You can get a recent set of consolidated patches with the download of the Hobbyist OpenVMS Alpha V8.4.  Go to the Hobbyist Page, register and ask for a download link for Alpha:
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> >      http://www.openvms.org/pages.php?page=Hobbyist
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> > Bill.
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> Are such patches available only for V8.4, or is V8.3 patches available.
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> After some of the things I've read, I'm not sure I want to leave V8.3. 
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> And I also support "made in USA"  :-)
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> (Please don't miss the smiley, I don't handle abuse well anymore.)

The current availability is just the most recent patch rollup for the current release of VMS on each architecture.  I have started a discussion with my contacts to see if they might be able to do a similar thing for one prior version. 

As far as the patch access mechanism and hoops, not much is expected to happen there.  The access is controlled by people in the Services Organization at HP and not Engineering. And as you should be aware, all of the different OS environments, including HP-UX are affected, not just VMS.  Not much is going to change there I suspect.

Bill.