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

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Thursday, 4 June 2015 18:54:27 UTC+1, JF Mezei  wrote:
> On 15-06-04 06:53, clairgrant71 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> >  I had a slide once that depicted 5% of VMS knows about the platform and the other 95% does not. 
> > Once you get the compilers and the 5% working you get the rest for free.
> 
> That assumes that all the compilers needed to build VMS are ported to
> the new platform, of course.
> 
> Are there instances when the engineers may decide it is easier to
> rewrite the few remaining utilities based on language X rather than port
> compiler X ?


1) Roadmap
http://www.vmssoftware.com/news/VMS_Software_Roadmap.pdf
2) History: Some stuff that needed rewriting has already been
rewritten in earlier ports (VAX->Alpha->IA64). 
4) The official VSI roadmap [1] talks about binary translation (static
and dynamic) in V9.0 on x86-64 in 2017.
8) That's all readily available published information. You want more?