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

[Hans Vlems]

On 26 jan, 03:09, moro... at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
wrote:
> hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
>
> >In article
> ><5feb33d2-8018-42bb-a06c-61f749581... at a15g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>,
> >MichaelM <michael.me... at rwe.com> writes:
> >> It seems that any time from 2013 on is an invalid time for the
> >> processors time-of-year clock and this clock becomes important after
> >> "power off" or >>>INIT.
> >Does anyone else see this?  Is there a fix?
>
> A little birdie has a suggestion:
>
>     This has been seen on v8.3 Itanium, too, on EACH AND EVERY
>     ONE of <a customer's> 14 OpenVMS systems, but over a YEAR
>     ago.
>
>     The fix FOR THIS was the SYS updates from Oct 2011; when we
>     installed this set, it was all fixed:
>
> VMS83I_PCSI-V0400.ZIPEXE;1
>                             3498/3504    30-SEP-2011 17:29:22.00
> VMS83I_SYS-V1800.ZIPEXE;1
>                            34108/34112   25-OCT-2011 18:33:14.00
> VMS83I_UPDATE-V1500.ZIPEXE;1
>                           210783/210784   2-NOV-2011 18:41:10.00
>
>     It can't be said that it's the same issue, but it sure looks
>     suspiciously similar.

Michael,
what were the contents of these kits and was there an Alpha equivalent
too at the time?
Hans