[Info-vax] i4 Possible?

[BillPedersen]

On Monday, February 10, 2014 6:59:59 PM UTC-5, Keith Parris wrote:
> On 2/10/2014 1:40 AM, fhsjvl at gmail.com wrote:
> > it is correct to say that OpenVMS engineering has shut down already.
>  
> No, it would not be correct to say that.

Very definitely not the case.  I and many in the Open Source on OpenVMS Community work with OpenVMS Engineering on a weekly basis.  We have at least two conference calls a month dealing with issue in the CRTL and other portions of OpenVMS as well as review and discussion on enhancements which are currently being developed.

I also work with OpenVMS Engineering on a regular basis as a customer or for my customers when it comes to issues I have submitted via HPSC!  

A current problem being worked for me is an issue with FORTRAN not properly handling 64bit pointers and large arrays on IA64.  This involves work on the FORTRAN RTL as well as the FORTRAN compiler to correct properly.

So, HP OpenVMS Engineering IS very much alive.

NOW, that said, I am not happy with the HP decision to not support I4!  I believe it was foolish and made without true understanding of the Community.

I applaud any and all efforts to move OpenVMS FORWARD!!!!!!!!!!!

Bill.