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)