[Info-vax] The Road to V9.0

[Richard Maher]

On 4/06/2019 8:54 am, clair.grant at vmssoftware.com wrote:
> I'll start a new note here but my frequency of keeping it up-to-date could be very sporadic.
> 
> To start, here are two reminders:
> 
> 1) V9.0 will not be available for everyone. There will be 10 to 15 selected ISVs, partners, and
> customers getting a head start on porting their applications.
> 
> 2) V9.0 will not be the complete operating system and all its associated layered products. The content
> will be an intersection of what the selected participants need and what we will have ready in a
> reasonable time frame.
> 
> I will get the V9.0 Proof Points ready in the next few days. For starters, we need to get to what I
> call Real Boot, as opposed to First Boot where we did some side stepping and blatant cheating to
> reach the goal. Two examples are: first, we loaded everything as execlets which means all the
> code started out in memory and therefore there was no paging and second, we ran in kernel mode
> and now have to deal with the other modes. These things are underway but each involves
> multiple Proof Points.
> 
> Stay tuned.
> 

So reminiscent of the old DEC sushi marketing days.

"Cold dead fish"