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Recently I posted a question about Release 5.1 of HP-UX
on a HP9000 Series 500 (HP9.5k?). The specific question was
regarding 'gotchas' in going up from 5.05 (if you went from
4.1 to 5.01 you already know what I mean!).

This summarises the responses that I have received.

The original posting was to net.micro.hp: this summary goes
to that group and comp.sys.hp.  (Sorry adms for the duplicate
posting rejections, but times are tough on the net right now!)

First, 3 people within HP sent me the newconfig stuff on the
tape.  It appears that there is little beyond *huge* numbers of
bug fixes and extensions.  FORTRAN has clearly been worked on
very hard, 2 Meg memory cards are now supported, NLS is extended,
etc. etc.  The only  comment I found that (fortunately) doesn't
apply to me but might be worth passing along is:

> There are two  unsupported  configurations  in which the  system
> will not boot up due to a memory controller microcode bug.  They
> consist  of one CPU  (97043A  or 97043B)  and one IOP  (97049A),
> combined  with  either  twelve  or  thirteen  megabytes  of  any
> combination of 97046A (the one megabyte memory board) and 97048A
> memory.  All other  configurations will function correctly.  The
> maximum memory a Series 500 can support is 14.5 megabytes  which
> would  consist  of seven  97048A  memory  boards and one  97047A
> memory board.

One non-HP person reported a bug in chatr not working with `ifprolog'
on a 550 running 5.11.  I didn't understand the comment but
will forward replies to the questioner.

Finally, one HP'er whom I tend to trust sent the following to me:
> 
> Howdy.  I work in the Lab that did/does the S500, and administer one of the
> systems here.  The 5.1 update wasn't painless but the update documentation
> ... was more complete than in the past ....
> 
> Anyway, I've found a number of nice things about 5.11, nothing specific,
> just bug fixes, etc.

I particularly thank the guys at Fort Collins for taking the trouble to help.
If anyone wants, I can mail you the update docs for both 5.05 -> 5.1 and
for 5.01 -> 5.1.

I'm looking forward to 5.1, which I'm putting up in about 3 weeks.
Now -- about TCP/IP for Series 500's .... (ahem).
-- 
    David Harrison, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto
    {ihnp4,utzoo}!utcs!utfyzx!harrison