[Info-vax] VMS Software Inc. OpenVMS 8.4-1H1 Boots on i4 System

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On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 10:43:29 AM UTC-4, VAXman- wrote:
> In article <140b370d-93af-474d-8e6d-15e277ecd700 at googlegroups.com>, Bob Gezelter <gezelter at rlgsc.com> writes:
> >On Friday, March 13, 2014, the Engineering Team at VMS Software booted a built from scratch OpenVMS 8.4-1H1 DVD on an i4 system.
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> Were you there?
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This DVD may not seem like much but believe me a number of people are working full time on kitting, licensing, documentation, PAK generation enhancements,  arm wrestling with HP, kit installation and upgrade changes, layered product kits and support, copyrights, version numbers, digital signing, designing an online order system, planning a support team, coordinating FIS software on HP hardware,...all those things it takes to get a product out the door. VMS, the running operating system, is doing just fine and is ready for final qual and then field test. Much of the legalize and process of getting it out the door is different when you have a new producer of an existing product and we have to get these things right. It is a big job.