[Info-vax] New first boot contest ?, was: Re: Fortran

[Dave Froble]

On 12/5/2018 2:51 PM, Bob Gezelter wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 2:18:06 PM UTC-5, John Reagan wrote:
>> On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 1:46:59 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2018-12-05, John Reagan  wrote:
>>>> Not to worry.  Under no circumstances would we add /STANDARD=VAXC to
>>>> clang. That would be insanity.  We're more likely to recode our Macro32
>>>> into JavaScript and PHP.
>>>>
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
>>>> I'm starting with the list of additions we made to the Intel C++ compiler
>>>> on Itanium (which is already much smaller than C++ in Alpha) and cutting
>>>> from there.  I'll finish up the spec after the holidays and first boot.
>>>                                                   ^^^^^^^^     ^^^^^^^^^^
>>>> I'll post it then in a new thread for what will surely be a lively
>>>> discussion.
>>>
>>> Oh, I don't think that's the lively discussion you have just started. :-)
>>>
>>> Are VSI planning on running a new first boot contest, given how close
>>> it now appears to be ?
>>>
>>> Simon.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Simon Clubley,
>>> Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world
>>
>> All I said (or implied) is that I have some vacation to use up later this month, I have other things to do (both work and personal), and my first priority is for Macro-32 bugs that are found as part of the first boot debugging.  My latest one was for "SOBGEQ (SP), 1$".  I accidentally decremented the stack pointer (the %rsp register) and not the top of the stack as intended.
>>
>> I did not imply that first boot would be before or after any holiday (nor did I specify the holiday :) )
>>
>> I have not heard anything about re-opening the contest, etc.  Clair's posts showing additional progress provide plenty of detail.
>
> John,
>
> As a reference to a GHW Bush quote (to the effect that the "undecided will decide"), it is without a doubt that the first boot will be "before or after a holiday".
>
> - Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com
>

With the dedicated people at VSI, perhaps on a holiday, and there is the 
question, who's holiday?

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