[Info-vax] compile for VAX 8650 system

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 15:32:03 UTC+1, Stanley F. Quayle  wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 10:12:57 AM UTC-4, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> > The problem is most of the VaxELN machines out there have long ago lost all
> > of that stuff.  Only the client binaries remain.
> 
> I'll bet that VAXeln didn't make it to a site like bitsavers, being copyrighted software, etc. *sigh*
> 
> HP charges a fee to move move VMS and layered products to an emulator. I noticed some time ago that the VAXeln toolkit wasn't on the list. I called HP about that, and they said, "What's VAXeln?".

Some VAXeln docs are on bitsavers, just horribly outdated (V2?).

Compaq inherited VAXeln but then got rid of the Embedded+RealTime 
Products Group which is where VAXeln lived at the time. Much of E+RT
went to SMART Modular Technologies and thence to Force (which at the 
time was part of Motorola?). HP afaik never owned VAXeln.

VAXeln customers were "encouraged" by CPQ E+RT HQ to migrate to a
DEC/CPQ variant of VxWorks for Alpha (which required a UNIX
development environment). Basically, a redesign of both development
and target environments. Nice.

If that wasn't favoured (and why would it be), there was an all
singing all dancing magic distributed RTOS strategy which was one
day going to take over the world, for those who were willing to wait
for it. Never happened, afaik, except perhaps in academia (CMU?)
where it came from.