[Info-vax] The Road to V9.0

[Dave Froble]

On 6/4/2019 11:08 AM, Richard Maher wrote:
> 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"

Richard, that's pure BS ....

Keeping interested people involved in the progress of the port to x86 is 
much more than I've ever seen in the past, and it is the right thing to do.

I've seen posts from long ago VMS users, and it's because they can see 
details of what's happening.

It's called marketing, and to some extent, everyone at VSI needs to be 
involved in marketing.


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