[Info-vax] 8.4 freespace-drift problem?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <a8c61f85-46c1-4a34-9e20-b55d8b7a9752 at googlegroups.com>, Hans
Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes: 

> Hoff, us hobbyists have to live and work (play?) with what we can afford. 

Right.

> My point is that old supported hardware and new openVMS versions is no
> problem at all. There have been questions about the quality of 8.4. OK,
> nuisances happen but altogether this latest version works well. 

Note that 8.4 is supported on hardware much older than I have.

> I feel Phillip got bitten by taking a large step, upgrading from 7.3-2
> towards 8.4 in what appears one move. 

Note that this upgrade path is supported.

> And that he ought to run the XP1000 for at least two days and then run
> autogen with feedback. 

Yes.  We'll see what happens.  :-|