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The Question is: we bought a MV4000-505a which included a dtc04-aa The company said the system included everything it needed to run, but I have figured out that I'm missing a layered product, I believe "decvoice" that is now retired. how can I get decvoice, albeit unsupported for vms 7.1? Please do not respond "since it is retired, you can't get it". I dont believe that once a product is retired that a gnome runs around compaq deleting all known copies of said software. Please help me out. Thanks The Answer is : The DTC04 DECvoice I Q-bus module does require the DECvoice VOX software kit, which is not part of OpenVMS itself. Once you have the VOX software, you will have to acquire or write applications for it, or you will require the DECvoice Builder application-development package, or both. The OpenVMS Wizard is not aware of a way to acquire this software beyond a formal request to roll in and replicate an old OpenVMS layered product distribution kit, and the OpenVMS Wizard does not particularly know if this kernel-mode software will operate on recent OpenVMS VAX releases. When a product becomes unsupported, then yes, the equivilent of a little gnome (as you put it) can and often does delete the software source code involved. Alternatively, little trolls -- more commonly refered to as "contractual requirements" -- can preclude the release of packages via the Freeware or other means. (In the particular case of the DECvoice software, there are third-party royalties and third-party organizations involved, as all of the DECvoice devices involved soft-loaded microcode, and various of this microcode had third-party encumbrances.) The DECvoice Software SPD is 29.97.xx, UPI is VFUAA, and the last version that shipped was V2.4. The DECvoice Software and the DECvoice Builder software products reached end-of-service-life and ceased shipping in December, 1999 -- the last consolidated distribution that contained the kits is September, 1999. The DECvoice Builder and DECvoice Builder Run-Time UPIs are MQ7AA and MQ8AA, respectively.) The OpenVMS Wizard would simply remove the module from the Q-bus. (For details on how to do this, please search for "serpentine" here in Ask The Wizard.) If you need to use this particular Q-bus module, please contact the organization that sold it to you for further assistance.
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