[HECnet] RSX or RSTS

[Johnny Billquist]

In RSX, base level is a number, and it is constantly being increased. 
For every new development cycle which result in any kind of release, 
there was a new base level. (Even for purely internal releases.)

So the field trial of RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6 was at BL86. The final release 
after field trial had some fixes and cleanups, and that became BL87.
Still V4.6 though.

   Johnny

On 2020-03-22 16:57, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>> Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
>> It's the base level designation.
> 
>    Thanks, Paul.  So did the base level releases come before the real
> release, as in something like alpha test, beta test, field test, etc?  That
> would that mean that "10.1" (no letter) is a later release than "10.1L"?
> 
>    Or was it the other way around - the base levels were issued after the
> main release ?  In that case 10.1L is later than 10.1?
> 
> Bob
> 
> P.S.  I worked for DEC SWS for several years, but I remember us calling it
> "base line" rather than "base level".  Probably a regional thing.  We used
> the term for any snapshot of the code base at some defined milepost, either
> in time or functionality, and hopefully with stuff mostly working (though
> not always so much :)   I still use "base line" today for the exact same
> thing.
> 
> 

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