[Info-vax] c 7.3 - Why MAYLOSEDATA3 for long pointer math?

[JF Mezei]

On 15-03-15 21:30, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2015-03-16 00:52:43 +0000, JF Mezei said:
> 
>> HP retains the customers on hardware older than Poulson.
> 
> False.   The roadmap 
> <http://www.vmssoftware.com/pdfs/VMS_Software_Roadmap_20150224.pdf> 

I stand corrected. However I am correct in HP reselling VSI software and
support:
"HP will resell VSI versions of OpenVMS and LPs"
(same with support which can be ordered from VSI or HP).

Where I was wrong is VSI's ability to reach customers who are on
hardware older than Poulson. Initially had heard VSI support/sales would
only be for Poulson/Kittson boxes.

> As far as it goes, yes.  VSI has obtained the rights to develop and 
> sell to Poulson and (if/when it arrives) Kittson, as well as on other 
> platforms. 

Had the the sentence been written as:
> VSI has obtained the rights to develop and
> sell to Itanium as well as other platforms

Then I woudl have made a very different conclusion. By speficying that
VSI has rights to sell to 2 specific iterations of IA64, it implies that
they do not have the rights to sell to earlier platforms.  Whenever
legalise is that specific, it is that specific for a very specific reason.