What were the features of the various Primos releases?
REV 24 At the time of writing – March 19, 1997 – this editor has been informed that an ISV in the US who recently ordered “The Latest Release” of Primos received Rev 24.0.0.R51. The corresponding UPINFO file indicates that 24.0.0.R51 was released on March 18, 1996. So it looks like there haven’t been any Primos enhancements/bug fixes for a year now. 24.0.0.R51 [March 18, 1996] – Enhancement to the RDY command to give the ability to make the command processor display the commands generated when wildcarding, treewalking or iterating. 24.0 [February 18, 1994] – Store unix compatible passwords in CONFIG_USERS to aid migration 🙁 – Much better CPL (4-6 times faster, more memory available) – CMPF enhancements – Multiple sort options in LD – Enhanced Spooler REV 23 23.4 [March 26, 1993] – Support 512MB Memory on 5310, 5320, 5330 and 5340 – FIX_DISK without shutting down partition – New MATCH utility (like grep) – More options to CONFIG_USERS – Ability to customise ‘User ID?’ prompts – Spoole
