Talk:PVCS

203.197.157.151 wrote: Latest development is Serena is bought over by Silverlake

Since Serena already dropped the PVCS name, this is hardly relevant here. --QEDquid 20:06, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

The name is still in use: see Serena.com Leotohill 16:10, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

When I use your suggested Url http://www.serena.com/Products/professional/Home.asp I get a 404 error ;-) --Hfrmobile (talk) 10:15, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Supported platforms

@Tedickey: thanks. In the page linked as source OpenVMS is not present, so we have to fix the link, too. I will use your link (http://pvcs.synergex.com/products/supported_platforms.aspx) instead of the actual one (http://pvcs.synergex.com/products/system_requirements.aspx). --Jacobubus (talk) 10:13, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

DOS?

If there were reliable sources discussing the early history of Polytron version control system, that might be useful to point out how DOS was related. The topic has no reliable sources discussing the early history, and in any case, the product is unlikely to have supported DOS as a platform since several years before the (mostly primary) sketchy sources cover. TEDickey (talk) 14:31, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

I'm not a peer-reviewed source, but I was there and it absolutely ran on DOS. I'm curious what you think it ran on instead, in 1985? Windows 1.0 was a useless toy. Unix had its own world of version control. 47.219.177.120 (talk) 23:43, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

As for the DOS versions of PVCS I can state that I not only used the DOS command line programs from this toolset in the late 80s and early 90s (both at General Dynamics and the Peter Norton Group of Symantec) I went on to run the software engineering teams for Intersolv responsible for PVCS (1996-1999) back when it still shipped DOS and Windows versions. I then led those teams to port from C & C++ to Java just as that language started to become popular. I have a software CD bearing a 1998 copyright hanging on my home office wall. Even this Serana PVCS(R) Version Manager 8.6 Command-Line Reference Guide from 2017 references the DOS command line programs from the 1980's (https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/pvcs-version-manager/8.6/VMCLIRG.pdf). MarkMaxPayne (talk) 23:06, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Perhaps you can add the page number so that others may see what you're reading in the source document TEDickey (talk) 00:23, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Open Source Tools?

Earlier this year I was incentivised to create an open source tool for reading early (<1995) PVCS log files (). Is there any interest in linking to such things here? Phlash909 (talk) 18:35, 29 October 2025 (UTC)