[Info-vax] First boot of OpenVMS on x86-64 was Monday, May 20, 2019

[Michael W. Farrell]

Do you mean Sunday May 19th?  Today is Tuesday May 21st.

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On Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 3:16:58 PM UTC-4, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 5/21/2019 12:11 PM, Hans Bachner wrote:
> > Neil Rieck schrieb am 21.05.2019 um 13:40:
> >> First boot of OpenVMS on x86-64 was Monday, May 20, 2019
> >>
> >> http://www.vmssoftware.com/news.html
> >
> > Well, the page you mention says
> >
> >  > OpenVMS First Boot on x86 - 14 May, 2019 2:15 EDT
> >
> > not May 20. However, the info was spread on May 20 via email by VSI.
> >
> > May 14 is also the date shown on
> > <http://vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html> in section "Proof Point 27":
> >
> >> $ dir dmm0:[vms$common.sysexe]
> >>
> >> DCL Calling into SYS$DIRECTORY at NET$VEC_RESERVE30 - in exec mode
> >> SYS$DIRECTORY::
> >> VSI VMS X86 XDELTA Debugger [SYSTEM_DEBUG], XF4Z, May 14 2019 
> >> 14:15:48
> >
> > which shows that the heading quoted above
> >
> >  > OpenVMS First Boot on x86 - 14 May, 2019 2:15 EDT
> >
> > apparently is missing "p.m.".
> >
> > Hans.
> 
> I'm sure the exact day and time isn't important.  I'd guess VSI wanted 
> to do some testing to insure it really a valid first boot.  No sense 
> in saying "we did it", followed by "Oh, wait a minute".
> 
> Now we wait for the 9.0 release to begin testing apps.
> 
> -- 
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Official First Boot was Tuesday May 19 at 2:15 in the afternoon (declared by
me) and we did tell a few people then. But, the official announcement was to
be on the website and the mechanics of making that happen dictated first
thing Monday morning. (The email from Marketing did turn out to be an hour
or so earlier.)


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