Anyone got DECwindows?
Anthony A. Datri
aad at stpstn.UUCP
Wed Mar 22 04:59:17 AEST 1989
Reply-to: aad at stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
>>Has anybody out there actually received DECwindows yet?
>>Our local office is quoting delivery of May/June (as part
>>of the VMS V5.1 kit).
> In the far reaches of Minnesota, V5.1 tapes showed up
> on my desk 3/1/89. With DECwindows. Several other
> local sites have rec'd theirs also.
I've been discussing things with my DECsalesperson for a while. Our software
contracts showed up with a copy of VWS for our ultrix machine (real useful
there), and said person tried to tell me that UWS and VWS were the same, and
I could take my VMS VWS tape and use it on my Ultrix machine. The Ultrix 3.0
docs say that DECwindows was the standard workstation software for Ultrix 3.0,
so I called up and asked when we'd get DECwindows for Ultrix. Blank stare.
I've also seen claims that UWS 2.0 is/will be DECwindows, which my salesperson
staunchly denies. Thursday I read off order numbers for the DECwindows
documentation that I got from a DEC internal sales bulletin, and she said they
weren't available and that DECwindows would ship April/May. I had to find out
for myself that DECwindows was going to just be part of VMS 5.1.
Friday two, count 'em, *two* copies of VMS 5.1 with "DECwindows" written all
over them showed up. Aside from the relase notes, there's a "5.1 New Features"
book (no binder) and a "Using DECwindows" book (binder) that lists on the
spine:
@b(Using DECwindows)
Overview of VMS DECwindows
DECwindows User's Guide
Desktop Applications
Now I suspect we'll have to go and order (read: pay extra for) the rest of the
documentation. I'll also have to get more memory for our mvII.
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