[Info-vax] Reimplementing VMS, was: Re: HP adds OpenVMS Mature Product Support beyond the end of Standard Support

[John Forkosh]

Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
> On 2014-02-04, JohnF <john at please.see.sig.for.email.com> wrote:
>> Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Sector7
>> Yeah, thanks Stephen. That's the one mentioned by Keith
>> that seemed to me like the "real thing".
>>
>>>> Thanks. P.S. Got any free ones?
>>> haha that's just so cute.
>>
>> Why? There are quite a few enormous projects available
>> for free. Of course, the demand for a "vms api" is probably
>> insufficient to attract any serious gpl development effort.
>>    But I think a smaller effort might be feasible, based on
>> the 80/20 idea that 80% of programs only use (the same) 20%
>> of vms services. And some of the more usual stuff, like
>> mailboxes, event flags, logical names, etc, seems reasonably
>> doable. Likewise, some subset of rms. Whereas some stuff maybe
>> not so easy, e.g., The sector7 ui stuff like fms and smg
>> (did they have tdms?) certainly caught my eye -- surely worth
>> paying for if you need it.
> 
> I see that Sector7 offer a 30 day evaluation of:
>   o - VX/Tools Includes: VX/BASIC, VX/DataX, VX/DCL and VX/JSP,
>       VX/FMS, VX/RMS, VX/RT, and VX/SMG
>   o - VC/DCL and VX/JSP (an implementation of the VMS
>        BATCH & PRINT spooler)
> The evaluation request form has a Home/Hobbyist user category
> for both organisation type and intended use.

Thanks, Paul, I hadn't noticed that. Probably wouldn't be
free enough for my purposes, and I'm guessing source isn't
provided, but I'd definitely take a closer look at whatever
they do provide.
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John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j at f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )