End of SPIDER support on VMS platform

SPIDER and WEB remain in use at Albany on DEC Open-VMS computers. However most of the new features such as are not available in the Open-VMS version of SPIDER. VMS also has significant problems handling large numbers of files within a directory. Additionally, there is uncertainty about the level of commitment of DEC to the continuation of Open-VMS. For these reasons, we intend to phase out the VMS version of SPIDER. We expect that VMS SPIDER will no longer be available after the end of 1997. Outside sites which utilize SPIDER should consider this in their decision making. Albany SPIDER users should make plans for converting their work to Unix SPIDER.

For users with DEC Alpha workstations, we note that many such workstations can be converted to run DEC Unix. We currently have SPIDER/WEB running under DEC Unix (although we do not have much experience with its use on DEC Unix).


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