[Info-vax] VMS porting (again), was: Re: CPython has removed OpenVMS support

["Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)"]

Le 24/12/2013 23:52, JF Mezei a écrit :
> On 13-12-24 17:21, "Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)" wrote:
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>> But I go on thinking the noport on Poulson is a bug. Not a big bug, just
>> some insignificant mistake on a negligible sector.
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> My thinking is that Hurd's breaking up of VMS engineering made it
> impossible to do the port to Poulson because there just wasn't enough
> expertise left within the group of undefined size in India that replaced
> VMS engineering.
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You are right about date of killing VMS around end of VMS engineering.

But I think it could be nuanced :

- there has been some clever guys in India, and would have this group 
got some budget, they could become a fine group,

- I heard there is no realy need for "a port to Poulson", it already 
works ; it was possible to have some reduce set of i4 hardware (for san, 
for example) certified with VMS and HP would sell i4 for VMS 10 or 15 
years ; on the contrary today HP must buy noiselessness for big 
companies, and even the i2s becomes difficult to sell.