Dilog DQ132 question

[John A. Dundas III]

At 2:11 PM -0400 4/3/08, Brad Parker wrote:
>What would I notice/like/want running V9+ over running V7?  I'd enjoy
>hearing from someone who's used it a lot.

I might be the wrong one to answer this as the bulk of my experience 
was from <= V7.2.  However here are some things I know changed:

- support for I/D-space; both in the kernel and in user programs

- DCL as one of the CLIs; I think it's the default from 9.0 on

- more/better shareable library support

- on-disk structure changes

- support for VMS-style BACKUP

- granularity in privileges and quotas

- support for later processors and devices [somewhat obvious]; 
correspondingly, support was removed for some older devices

- async read/write [from user programs]

Also, I think it was Zane who used to maintain (maybe still does) a 
compatibility matrix of layered products to OS versions.  Many 
changes there over time.

John