[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/11/2018 6:38 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Friday, May 11, 2018 at 3:56:36 PM UTC-5, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>> On 5/11/2018 4:48 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
>>> Hmmm...wasn't what I was told when I was under contract to DEC and the sale
>>> went through. This was right about the time the first Alpha machines were
>>> seeing the light of day. My office (when I was there) was across the hall
>>> from the Elk Grove Alpha guys.
>>
>> As the DECset maintainer for VSI, I'm quite confident what I wrote is correct.
> 
> It doesn't really matter.

Some people think it matters to be correct.

> I cannot see DECSet being a major selling point wooing customers.

I agree.

Much better tools are available.

> CMS was way better than "the sacred directory" solution, even "the
> sacred directory with all file versions set to 32767 to prevent
> overwrite" solution. But in this day and age there are lots of
> version control solutions. I haven't dug deep enough into any of them
> to see if they provide a Class capability like CMS, but, I have to
> believe in the 2+ decades CMS has been around someone mimicked that
> feature in their version control system.
????

> But, if you are allowed to speak for VSI here in this thread, could you please answer the earlier question.
> 
> What is the target market of the x86 port? What niche is it seeking to hang onto for itself?
> 
> Not seeking to be a penis with ears. I honestly wish to know. I have
> neither seen nor heard of that being officially answered. I have
> heard a lot of "we're going to port all of the Linux stuff and be
> another Linux distro that just isn't Linux talk" but I've never heard
> just what market segment this is supposed to serve.
I do not remember having hear anyone wanting to make VMS a Linux distro.

There is a vocal wish to get all the new stuff that are available
elsewhere Linux, Windows and to some extent the remainders of
commercial Unix.

> A backend only system doesn't need any of this p-compiled stuff I've
> heard chatter about. A reliable back end system will be receiving
> data via some message queuing technology for ensured delivery and
> dropping said data into various ACMS queues to ensure execution.
That is one type of flow (pattern) to support, but there are
certainly many other.

Arne