WANTED: VMS Orange Wall

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Sun May 16 04:00:25 1999

At 19:14 15/05/99 -0700, Zane H. Healy wrote:

>That's right, Orange is V4.x and Grey is V5.x, isn't V3 Blue? I seem to
>remember hearing either V1 or V2 is white (there was actually a USENET
>thread on this a couple months ago).

OK, it's been a long while, but I know that V3 manuals were Blue, and V1
were white. I just can't remember what V2 were, I suspect blue as well, but
wouldn't be surprised that they were white. My first major VMS systems
programming job was to upgrade an 11/780 from 2.4 to 3.0. It took most of a
weekend, not helped by the fact that you had to install different versions
of the microcode at various points during the upgrade, and it took 30+
minutes to discover that you'd got the wrong one in. The 8" floppy on an
11/78x was not renowned for speed. ISTR that the interface was one bit wide.

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