[Info-vax] VSI: "Official 8.4-1H1 Launch"

[IanD]

On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 11:17:53 AM UTC+10, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 6/2/15 6:16 PM, IanD wrote:
> 
> > I guess to start with it will be a port to Intel with as few
> > functional changes as necessary just to get the OS across - more major
> > works and future based changes will come along later
> 
> Or you could read the roadmap and not guess quite as much:
> 
> http://www.vmssoftware.com/pdfs/VMS_Software_Roadmap_20150224.pdf

My comments were more high level guess by myself as to the likely strategy of moving OpenVMS to Intel X86

The roadmap doesn't spell out the details of what aspects of the OS will make it over to Intel initially. I know the roadmap states 'Architecture Common' and that may mean everything existing moved forward or it may mean lowest common denominator - it's hard to know

For example, will all clustering topologies make it in the first release or will only the most common make it first round? Without the specifics, which the roadmap does not give (and I didn't expect it to give), I merely guessed at the likely philosophy behind how the port might be done

It will be interesting (actually exciting) to see an updated roadmap in say 6 or  even 12 months time to see the progress being made and hopefully to see more specific details :-)