[Info-vax] VSI has released 9.2-1

[David Jones]

On Thursday, June 15, 2023 at 6:51:32 PM UTC-4, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 6/15/2023 6:43 PM, Chris Townley wrote: 
> > Any idea if we can upgrade from E9.2-1 or is a reinstall required?
> Probably not supported. 
> 
> Try it and see what happens; when I did that upgrade, it 
> worked, but I'm pretty sure that we state that upgrading 
> from a field test version is not supported. 
> 
> --- Rob

I upgraded from the field test and the only glitch seems to be that SYSINIT
complained about not finding <SYS$LDR>NET$MESSAGE.EXE. The field
test originally had DECNET_PLUS, but I uninstalled it and replaced it with
DECNET_PHASE_IV. The upgrade said it would replace the Phase IV install
with a new Phase IV, so I don't know why it was looking for a Phase V file.

I manually extracted net$message.exe from the decnet_plus kit on the ISO,
built a new memory disk image with sys$md.com, and the error messages
ceased.

I re-built SQLite and ran its speedtest program. The CPU time was pretty much
exactly half the previous run on 28-MAY-2023. The benchmark is I/O bound, so
the I/O processing overhead appears to be much improved.

Running a re-built Bytemark program under the new release is a wash, speedwise.