[Info-vax] Layered products, the HP view !?!

[clairgrant71 at gmail.com]

> I was under the impression that VMS 8.4-1H1 would be nothing else than 
> an adaptation to make it possible to run VMS on the i4.

That was the intent. The big thing we did was fix a long-standing bug that preventing booting on a particular i4 blade memory configuration.


>But now I 
> understand VSI also made small but important bug fixes on all kind of 
> layered products. Impressive!

We found a few things that we thought were worth fixing now rather than waiting for an update release.

>Dis you rebuild all layered products, even 
> if there were no changes in the sources?
> 
> I tried to find a description of the complete 8.4-1H1 release on the VSI 
> web site, but alas no luck. Will you be issuing Software Product 
> Descriptions? I always liked to read those, simple well structured and 
> precise documents. So much better than colourful marketing brochures 
> trying to describe a product and failing to do so accurately.

Well-timed question. We have SPDs and I'm told that they should appear on our website later today. If that doesn't happen I'll pursue it.