I sent this response privately to the individual who asked the original
question but I felt the whole list should see Compaq's answer:
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I was about to upgrade an AlphaStation to V4.0E when I got this directly
from DECompaq technical support via the DSNlink:
"My only recomendation would be to wait for the first patch kit for
DU4.0e. V4.0d BL11 is much more advanced than 4.0e in performance fixes
and bug fixes. V4.0e only buys you ev6 support (which the current
AlphaStations can't have) V4.0e also supports NetRain but that is a
special ethercard. So my recomendation would be wait for the kit or use
4.0d with the lastest kit."
I went with V4.0D and the December patch kit: DUV40DAS00003-19981208.tar
Larry Clegg
LPL Financial Services
San Diego, California
Received on Fri Jan 15 1999 - 20:48:01 NZDT