NS terminal RecoverUpdate compatibility

[Mendon Systems 22]

Is there a table somewhere that shows which version of RecoverUpdate is compatible with the various NS terminal versions?? I discovered the hard way this weekend that they don't all play happily together. I have an NS5-MQ00B-V2 here that works fine with version 8.4 but acts weird with version 8.6.

[Michael Walsh 268]

There are only 3 versions of hardware: No version number: not field upgradeable V1: Field upgradeable, but memory limitations V2: Field upgradeable, memory improved V1 screens can be upgraded, but potential issues regarding running out of memory could arise. V2 screens should be able to upgrade to any current version of the firmware. If it is acting strange, there may have been a problem with the screen or the upgrade process.

[Michael Walsh 268]

One other potential cause could be that there is a bug with v8.6 firmware, but I have not been able to find anything regarding that being a potential problem.

[Mendon Systems 22]

Thanks Mike! I suspect that version 8.6 might have a problem, but this is an older NS5 (2009 maybe) -V2 so I was curious about any published limitations. I upgraded the NS5 from the original version 6.4 firmware to version 8.6 and it started acting weird. After I loaded version 8.4 everything works OK. When running 8.6 it would crash whenever a numeric display with a 32 bit float was displayed requiring a terminal restart. It worked OK with numeric displays for Int and BCD data types. WEIRD!!!