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

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at 5:33:13 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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

Yep. At least back to 4.4. See my first post.