Big Gray Wall
<jargon> What faces a VMS user searching for documentation. A full VMS
kit comes on a pallet, the documentation taking up around 15 feet of shelf space
before the addition of layered products such as compilers, databases,
multi-vendor networking, and programming tools. Recent (since VMS version 5) DEC
documentation comes with grey binders; under VMS version 4 the binders were
orange and under version 3 they were blue. Often contracted to "Gray Wall".
[Jargon File]
(1995-03-07)
Nearby terms:
Big bag of pages « big blue « big-endian « Big Gray Wall
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