[Info-vax] Chaning machine name
Single Stage to Orbit
alex.buell at munted.eu
Tue Apr 18 10:16:47 EDT 2023
On Tue, 2023-04-18 at 10:03 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> I would assume the max size could have been increased if
> DEC/CPQ/HP/HPE/VSI had wanted to.
>
> But they are not going to sell a single VMS license more
> by increasing that limit.
>
> And it may be a huge (read: costly) change to implement, because
> the name limit may spill over in DECnet and cluster comm
> protocols - and what about different VMS versions in a rolling
> cluster upgrade, and and and.
Oh, that's true, clusters can have different versions of VMS running.
No worries.
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