[Info-vax] C99 stuff (Re: The Road to V9.0)

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] Unless you donate an x86 machine to Steven Schweda,
> [...]

   Probably not required.  But, unless I can get licenses
for the OS and tools at negligible expense, the hardware
won't matter much.

> [...] then we'll have to build them ourselves (assuming
> that they compile out of the box).

   Aside from some MMS/MMK mysteries, I wouldn't expect many
problems.  But, until the VSI Hobbyist program appears, I
wouldn't bet much on anything.  Currently, I can't run any
VSI VMS releases on anything.  (I'll just hold my breath.)



> [...] I suspect that he has at least one Windows or Linux
> box. Since OpenVMS-X86-64 will run as a guest under Virtual
> Box (among others) one does not need dedicated hardware to
> work with OpenVMS-x86-64.


   Not all my GNU/Linux systems use that CPU type, and my
favorite Mac Pro (Early 2008) is stuck at 10.11.x (El
Capitan), which seems to be too old for VirtualBox 6.0.8, but
I do have Windows 7 and 10, and Debian 9, on a Dell Precision
T7400 (Xeon E5430), which could probably be made to serve. 
Or I could sink another hundred or two dollars into different
junk, as required.