[Info-vax] New VSI Community license PAK

[Craig A. Berry]

On 10/22/20 4:03 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 10/22/2020 11:47 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 10/22/2020 11:33 AM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>>> On 10/22/2020 10:39 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>> In article <rmq7k3$b3a$1 at dont-email.me>, "Robert A. Brooks"
>>>> <FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com> writes:
>>>>> On 10/21/2020 4:52 PM, Chris Scheers wrote:
>>>>>> I think everyone is over thinking this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   From what has been said, it seems that this is NOT an x86 issue.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is a VMS 9.2 issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> V9.2 implies X86; we've already announced that we'll release patches
>>>>> for V8.4-2Lx for Alpha and IA64, but only X86 will be V9.x
>>>>
>>>> So I can run V8.4-2L1 on any Alpha (at least EV56 or better) and 
>>>> cluster
>>>> with 9.x if I have the patch?
>>>
>>> We expect that V8.4-2L1 will work on any Alpha; we did not test
>>> against anything older than
>>> XP1000's.
>>>
>>> We cannot release any patches for any non-VSI version of VMS.
>>
>> So the short version is:
>>
>> older Alpha => run VSI 8.4-2L1
>> newer Alpha & Itanium => run VSI 8.4-2L2
> 
> There is no 2L2 for the itanic ....

But, confusingly, there will be a 2L3 for Itanic but not for Alpha.