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General User Release Notes
4.2 Booting OpenVMS Version 7.3 on a Personal Workstation with IDE Controllers
To determine which IDE chip you have in your configuration, enter the following
SRM console command:
SHOW CONFIGURATION
If you see Cypress PCI Peripheral Controller, you can boot OpenVMS.
If you see Intel SIO 82378, you will need to use and boot from a SCSI CD–ROM.
4.3 COM for OpenVMS (Alpha Only) Not Supported in a
Mixed-Version Cluster
V7.3
Because of changes to the OpenVMS Registry protocol, you cannot run COM for
OpenVMS software on OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.3 systems and non-Version 7.3
systems in the same cluster.
If you have a mixed-version OpenVMS Cluster system, you can run COM for
OpenVMS only on the OpenVMS Alpha system that is running the OpenVMS
Registry server or on other OpenVMS Alpha systems running the same version of
OpenVMS as the system running the Registry Server.
For more information about the OpenVMS Registry protocol change, see
Section 5.10.
For information about installing and configuring COM for OpenVMS, see the
OpenVMS Connectivity Developer Guide.
4.4 Online Help New and Changed Topics
V7.3
With Version 7.3, a number of new Help topics have been added and the names of
some old Help topics have been changed.
Online Help now includes all the OpenVMS utility routines that are described in
the OpenVMS Utility Routines Manual, as follows:
ACL_Editor
BACKUP_API
CLI_Routines
CONV$_Routines
CQUAL_Routines
DCX_Routines
DECTPU
EDT_Routines
FDL_Routines
LBR_Routines
LGI_Routines
MAIL_Routines
NCS_Routines
PSM_Routines
SMB_Routines
SOR_Routines
General User Release Notes 4–3