[Info-vax] Fortran

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <pu4gpr$4v6$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> Your claim about how hard it will be to move is just that, your claim. 
> I feel that you are mistaken.  But you are entitled to your opinion.

That obviously depends on the system.  Some will be easier, some less 
so.  Some will benefit greatly from a mixed-architecture cluster, some 
less so.

> I'm rather sure that x86 VMS will still mount disks, should the 
> interface be the same, from VAX, Alpha, and that sinking ship.

So x86 machines running VMS will have SCSI interfaces?

> I'm even more sure that BACKUP will be able to take images from those 
> disks and restore them to disks on an x86 running x86 VMS.

Sure.  But that won't work out of the box for all users.

> I'm guessing that x86 VMS will be able to have network links to Alpha 
> and that sinking ship, and files, and save sets, could be copied, and / 
> or restored.

Sure.  But that won't work out of the box for all users.

> As you should be able to see, the above is even better than using a 
> cluster, since even moving from VAX will be possible.

VAX is not an issue for me.

Think about compiled code.  It has to be recompiled.  It has to be 
tested.  Much easier to do in a mixed-architecture cluster.