[Info-vax] OpenVMS x86-64 and RDB and DB's in general on OpenVMS

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

David Froble skrev den 2015-07-01 00:23:
> JF Mezei wrote:
>> On 15-06-30 09:08, clairgrant71 at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Porting Oracle and Rdb to VMS are both huge, but very different,
>>> undertakings.
>>
>>
>> On the one hand, one is told that for most ports, it is just a matter of
>> recompiling.  (I realise there is the cost/trouble of testing/validating
>> etc).
>>
>> What sort of system features would Oracle and RDB use which are
>> architecture specific and require much work to port from one 64 bit
>> architecture to another on the same opertating system ?
>
> The first question I'd ask is what languages are used in Rdb?

OK, since it seems hard to actualy read anything oneself, here
is a quote from one of the PDFs I linked to earlier.

http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/products/rdb/pdf/rdbtf05_itaniumport.pdf

On page 5:

Languages, Compilers, Tools used to build/develop Rdb:

• BLISS
• C
• C++
• MACRO64/MACRO32
• MESSAGE
• Command Definition Utility
• SQL$PRE
• SQL$MOD
• RDBPRE
• FMS
• FORTRAN
• Galileo
• SCAN
• AWK
• CMS
• MMS
• TPU
• LSE
• DOCUMENT
• RUNOFF/DSRPLUS
• DECforms