[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-05-12, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>
> You really don't like the current market and the current reality, do 
> you?   Okay, Windows will be around for the foreseeable future as a 
> billion systems don't go away very quickly ? DEC was telling folks to 
> get off of OpenVMS most of thirty years ago (1995) and here we are ? 
> macOS and iOS and tvOS is based on mach and parts of BSD and 
> Apple-specific code and is a unique open-source kernel known as XNU, 
> Microsoft can only get as far with porting and upgrades and API changes 
> as they do because they're serving up OO APIs for most applications, 
> there are far better kernels around if Microsoft is going to expend 
> huge time and effort and disruption involved with a kernel transplant 
> and for little apparent gain, TLS is not going to be supplanted by 
> IPsec until the latter becomes far more widespread and until IPsec 
> deals with the current and near-term Internet network and app 
> implementations, and app-to-app security is not going to be rushing to 
> migrate to designs that trust the entire host, and appliances are going 
> to have to deal with both the expectations of OO interfaces by app 
> designers and that the remote ends of the connections will not be 
> running on OpenVMS appliances.  Better APIs are certainly needed for 
> OpenVMS and better handling of networking and vastly better network 
> integration and massively upgraded security, but then VSI is not going 
> to be sufficiently relevant outside of the OpenVMS installed base 
> anywhere near soon enough to be remotely relevant in the next ten or 
> twenty years.
>

Stephen, I like to read what you say, but walls of text like this
are hard to read so I tend to just skip over them.

Just some feedback for you.

Simon.

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