[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[dgordonatvsi at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 12:28:27 PM UTC-4, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 11:16:02 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> But we aren't gointo have OpenVMS on x86-64. We are going to have a *nix that sucks and ___NOBODY___ has officially answered the question as to what the target market is for this port and how that target will be served.
> 
> Following a negative zero down the path of just another *nix which sucks completely abandons the existing market which is funding everything.
> 
> Everybody has heard all of this talk about Go and Rust and script language of the week and jumping to LLVM based compilers pretty much ensuring the bulk of the existing code base won't compile because *nix couldn't handle all of the VMS extensions which are in use.

Step away from the keyboard!  I don't know where you got such foolish ideas.

OpenVMS on X86 will be the same OS.  You'll be able to cluster (with VSI versions of the OS) across 3 architectures. The goal is compile, link and go -- same as it was for IA64.  We're putting some effort into undoing a decade of deferred development and there will be (as Hoff has pointed out) much more to do after the first X86 release.