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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/21/2022 12:13 PM, abrsvc wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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.
It definitely goes way back in 5.x. Maybe even back to 4.x.

The 20 limit sounds right for those days.

Arne