[Info-vax] Was the RECALL command limited to 8 entries in a much earlier version of OpenVMS?

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On Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at 11:44:45 AM UTC-5, Volker Halle wrote:
> alanfe... at gmail.com schrieb am Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 2022 um 12:56:13 UTC+1: 
> > Maybe it was limited to 24?
> From OpenVMS V7.1 User Manual (NOV-1991): 
> 
> On OpenVMS VAX systems, the recall buffer holds up to 20 previously entered commands. 
> On OpenVMS Alpha systems, the recall buffer holds up to 254 previously entered commands. 
> 
> Command line recall seems to have been introduced in V6.2 
> 
> Volker.

Recall was introduced in the V5.x timeframe.  I just verified that it works in V5.5-2. I have the release notes for these older versions somewhere,   I will try to locate when this started.

Dan