[Info-vax] VSI software

[Dave Froble]

On 8/6/2020 12:34 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <rgh8d9$u24$2 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>
>> How do you know that the V8.4 system is the problem?  Because it
>> manifests itself there?  That in no way says that is where the cause of
>> the problem exists.
>
> It worked fine before the upgrade.  It didn't work after the upgrade.
> I've done upgrades many times, and this one was straightforward.
>
> I appreciate the sympathy and concern :-) but life is short.  Since a
> fresh install of x86 is on the horizon anyway, and even before that I'll
> have to go to VSI VMS on Alpha, it really isn't worth worrying about.
>

I find your attitude humorous.

Your horizons are rather far off.  Figure maybe 2022, or, if you're 
going to wait for "bare metal", perhaps much further off.

You admit you will need to do a fresh install on x86.  Can't avoid it. 
But why would you do the other upgrades, and there may be issues with 
getting Alpha VMS V8.4 2L1.  All you really need, assuming you want your 
data on x86, and will stop using VAX/Alpha/itanic, is to copy your data 
to the new HW.  An excellent tool for this would be DECnet, which will 
work with HPe releases and VSI releases.

Oh, wait, you don't use DECnet ....

:-)

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