22 Mar
2020
22 Mar
'20
6:01 p.m.
In RSX, base level is a number, and it is constantly being increased.
For every new development cycle which result in any kind of release,
there was a new base level. (Even for purely internal releases.)
So the field trial of RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6 was at BL86. The final release
after field trial had some fixes and cleanups, and that became BL87.
Still V4.6 though.
Johnny
On 2020-03-22 16:57, Robert Armstrong wrote:
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Paul Koning
<paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
It's the base level designation.
Thanks, Paul. So did the base level releases come before the real
release, as in something like alpha test, beta test, field test, etc? That
would that mean that "10.1" (no letter) is a later release than
"10.1L"?
Or was it the other way around - the base levels were issued after the
main release ? In that case 10.1L is later than 10.1?
Bob
P.S. I worked for DEC SWS for several years, but I remember us calling it
"base line" rather than "base level". Probably a regional thing. We
used
the term for any snapshot of the code base at some defined milepost, either
in time or functionality, and hopefully with stuff mostly working (though
not always so much :) I still use "base line" today for the exact same
thing.