[Info-vax] Do you (or someone you work with) sysman on Windows?

[Richard Maher]

On 5/13/2015 6:15 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Stephen Hoffman skrev den 2015-05-12 21:23:
>> On 2015-05-12 17:46:20 +0000, Steven Schweda said:
>>
>>>> [...] Why do they always rebuild the system disk from scratch???
>>
>> With OS X, that's usually an expeditious approach, as you can re-upgrade
>> and reinstall OS X over itself, and *not* lose user customizations, nor
>> user settings, nor add-on packages.  Very handy for resolving disk
>> corruptions — hard disks can have from three to six hard errors per
>> terabyte, per some studies.  Hardware RAID or HBVS helps, but not
>> everybody
>> has that configured and available.
>>
>> With OpenVMS, I've found that clean installs have benefits over
>> continuing
>> to upgrade ancient system disks, as well.
>
> You mean not to have:
>
> $ prod sho hist openvms
> -------------------------- --------- ---------- --- -----------
> PRODUCT                    KIT TYPE  OPERATION  VAL DATE
> -------------------------- --------- ---------- --- -----------
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V8.4    Platform  Install    Sys 29-SEP-2012
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V8.3    Platform  Remove      -  29-SEP-2012
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V8.3    Platform  Install    (U) 15-OCT-2009
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V8.2    Platform  Remove      -  15-OCT-2009
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V8.2    Platform  Install        24-APR-2006
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V7.3-2  Platform  Remove         24-APR-2006
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V7.3-2  Platform  Install        24-APR-2006
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V7.2    Platform  Remove         24-APR-2006
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V7.2    Platform  Install        11-MAY-1999
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V7.1-2  Platform  Remove         11-MAY-1999
> DEC AXPVMS OPENVMS V7.1-2  Platform  Install        06-DEC-1998
> -------------------------- --------- ---------- --- -----------
> 11 items found
>
> There is nothing that we have identified as a problem
> comming from this, at least.

With 10 being the "last" version of Windows that sort of history might 
become more common over there also. When is a patch an upgrade?

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32658340