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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

IanD skrev den 2015-06-04 01:28:
> 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?

I do not know what "all" means here, but I expect to see those
"clustering topologies" that makes sense on the actual X86 systems.
Then maybe "upgrade only support" (or whatever it it called) for
those topologies that might be needed for an move to x86.





  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 :-)
>